![]() ![]() What is true of painters is true also of poets and dramatists we agree that they paint pictures in words, "creating" what we call images. Only the Forms are real the bed is a copy of the Form of Bed and the painting is a copy of a copy, an image of an image. The truly real bed is the Form of Bed, just as something perceived as being beautiful partakes of the Form of Beauty. But we have all agreed that a bed upon which people repose is not even a real bed. But when a painter paints a picture of a bed, we agree that it is not a real bed: The artist has probably seen a bed that some craftsman built and copied his picture of a bed. Thus, Socrates argues, it follows logically that we might argue an example of something an artist produces we may argue the example of, say, a bed. ![]() Socrates begins by seeking an agreement on definition he posits the idea that artists are said to create things hence, it is commonly held that they are creative artists. Here, Socrates considerably broadens his attack on the visual and dramatic arts. Earlier in the dialogue, Socrates suggested that certain kinds of music and poetry should not be permitted in the curriculum of study for the future rulers of the State because some art did not seem to be morally uplifting, hence perhaps bad for children. ![]()
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