The rational part of the soul is quiet, stable, and not easy to imitate or understand. Worse, the images the poets portray do not imitate the good part of the soul. By presenting scenes so far removed from the truth poets, pervert souls, turning them away from the most real toward the least. The things they deal with cannot be known: they are images, far removed from what is most real. It is widely considered that they have knowledge of all that they write about, but, in fact, they do not. First, they pretend to know all sorts of things, but they really know nothing at all. He has three reasons for regarding the poets as unwholesome and dangerous. Socrates has now completed the main argument of The Republic he has defined justice and shown it to be worthwhile. Please read from Key Lessons from Plato’s Republic - Book I, as this story is part of a broader series on Plato’s Republic. Key Lessons from Plato’s Republic - Book X
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