[lit-ideas] Re: Heidegger, Gadamer and the discreet poet
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:55:49 -0800
Lawrence Helm wrote
Why have Heidegger, Gadamer and other modern philosophers concluded
that >>Poetry is superior to Philosophy?
and John Wager replied
Let's not forget the source of all this so-called "disdain" of
philosophy at >the expense of poetry.
Plato began as a young man wanting to be a poet, and Socrates
seduced him into >philosophy.
I note that the 'ancient quarrel' between poetry and philosophy had
been going on well before Plato; for in the Republic (where poetry is
criticized on anumber of grounds for the harms it does--and is
ultimately banned, in Book X, from the ideal republic), that is what
he calls it. Homer (aside to JL), was,
for Plato the of a poet.
John is certainly right to point out that Plato would hardly have
flourished (or have been remembered) as a philosopher had he not been
a poet first.
This entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia is very good on Plato and poetry.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-rhetoric/
Robert Paul
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