
Why Banish the Poets Then?
Plato's harmonic endorsement of music, musicians and the metaphysics of mathematics is in part due to it's applied geometric imagining. Copycats or imposters of his perfected ideal are not welcome.
Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens. He is widely considered the pivotal figure in the development of Western philosophy.
Plato's harmonic endorsement of music, musicians and the metaphysics of mathematics is in part due to it's applied geometric imagining. Copycats or imposters of his perfected ideal are not welcome.
The common ground between Aristotle and Plato is the terra firma where all language animals roam and the rational mind ebbing and flowing on the currents of our cultural milieu.