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18KONSTAN, DAVID. Beauty: The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea. Oxford University Press, 2015, x + 262 pp., $29.95 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75 (1): 86-88. 2017.
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10Denham, Alison, ed. Plato on Art and Beauty. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, xxii + 238 pp., $85.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 72 (1): 104-106. 2014.
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51Audience Psychology and Censorship in Plato’s RepublicEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (2): 205-215. 2015.In Republic X, the “problem of the irrational part” is this: Greek tragedy interacts with non-reasoning elements of the soul, affecting audiences in ways that undermine their reasoned views about virtue and value. I suggest that the common construal of Socrates’s critique of Greek tragedy is inadequate, in that it belies key elements of Plato’s audience psychology; specifically, the crucial role of the spirited part and the audience’s cognitive contribution to spectatorship. I argue that Socrate…Read more
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Southern New Hampshire UniversityRegular Faculty (Part-time)
UCLA
Department Of Philosophy
Alumnus
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |