La más verdadera tragedia: la crítica de Platón a la poesía
ISSN: 2386-8449
Ano de publicación: 2014
Número: 1
Páxinas: 71-85
Tipo: Artigo
Outras publicacións en: Laocoonte : revista de estética y teoría de las artes
Resumo
The criticism of poetry is a recurrent theme in Plato�s Dialogues, in which moral, epistemological and ontological motives converge. On the one hand, Plato�s criticism goes to the extreme of proposing the banishment from the ideal city of the imitative poetry aiming to give pleasure; but on the other hand, it is the first theoretical effort to identify the phenomenon of artistic production, that up to his time was encompassed within craft practice. The concept of mimesis became for centuries the central category of aesthetic thought. Furthermore, Plato finally recognizes in an explicit way the poetical dimension of philosophical dialogue, which he characterizes as �the truest form of tragedy�.