Best Seller Ion ( modern philosophy, attitude, view point, idea, thinking, way of lifee

Collectors Edition! I Read this book for a graduate seminar on the philosophy of art. Plato in his dialogues "Ion, Symposium, and The Republic" was very concerned by the kinds of values presented in Greek poetry. By values, he meant proper and improper ways of acting, behaving, feeling, and thinking and ways of living. Plato thought poets and Homer were educating Greeks with bad values. Especially since Homeric epics were the primary vehicle used for educating the youth language and cultural notions, thus Plato hated this. This was an important battle for Plato, because of poetry's bad teachings; he was trying to contest the status of Greek poetry in the culture.