Plato's Dialogue - The Ion - Poetry, Interpretation, Emotion, and Knowledge

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The central question is whether the rhapsode, or even the poet himself, possesses knowledge. . . or whether he "speaks well" and judges who "speaks well" on some other basis. Plato advances the theory that poets, and those who successfully interpret them, experience a kind of divine possession, an ek-stasis that sets them outside of themselves.

00:06 overview, characters, and theme of the dialogue
12:53 a hint about reading Platonic dialogues
14:43 whether rhapsodes possess knowledge or not
25:09 poetry and interpretation as divine possession
36:56 whether poets possess knowledge or not
44:23 the example of Homer

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