Plato’s attitude to poetry and the fine arts, and the origins of aesthetics

PART II 16. Paideia Plato’s approach to the topic of education in the Republic and in the Laws does not seem to present significant differences, at least from the present point of view. The education which is illustrated concerns the character and is kept distinct from the intellectual education which is considered in a later part of the first work. (The fact that it concerns character is suggested e.g. in II, 377b, in IV, 441e 442a, and at least implicitly in VI, 498b, where the suggestion i..