Muhammad Fida Ul Haq 2211410014/ 405-406 Summary of Platos Statements Plato had made some statements that is made

to criticize about Greeks point of view toward truth, beauty, and goodness ; the nature of reality; the structure of society; the nature and relations of being (ontology); questions about how we know what we know (epistemology); and ethics and morality. Plato is known by western authors as a founding of the study of literary theory and criticism. At first statement, he wonders about his societys behaviour in finding ideal forms. He concludes that human will not find the ideal forms that is pursued. Finally he finds that in the universe there must be the ideal forms that is called spiritual realm; which Plato calls The One. Everything that is exist in the world is shadowy replica of the ideal one. Before Plato and his academy, Greek culture ordered its world through poetry and the poetic imagination. At that era, Greeks formulated their theories of goodness and other similiar words by reading and comprehending such works as The Iliad and The Odyssey. Knowing that facts, Plato states that is shameful when society prefer presentational mode to the art of reason and abstraction for discovering the truth. He condemns poet by saying that poets craft is an inferior who marries and inferior and has inferior offspring. Due to those reasons, Plato states that literary works from poets can be the basis of the Greeks morality or ethics. Otherwise, in later work, Plato recants the total banishment of poets from society, for he seemingly recognizes societys need for poets and their craft to celebrates the victors.