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    Socrates suggests that Ion is able to speak well about Homer's poetry not through knowledge, but through divine inspiration, similar to how a magnet transfers force to iron rings. This analogy likens poets to magnets who are divinely inspired by gods or muses, and who then pass this inspiration to rhapsodes like Ion when interpreting the poetry for audiences, without the rhapsodes possessing any real knowledge themselves.

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    Socrates suggests that Ion is able to speak well about Homer's poetry not through knowledge, but through divine inspiration, similar to how a magnet transfers force to iron rings. This analogy likens poets to magnets who are divinely inspired by gods or muses, and who then pass this inspiration to rhapsodes like Ion when interpreting the poetry for audiences, without the rhapsodes possessing any real knowledge themselves.

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    The Metaphor of the Magnet In Plato’s Ion

    In order to account for the way in which a rhapsode like Ion – a professional and public
    interpreter of poetry – is able to “speak well” about his favorite poet, Homer, Socrates
    suggests that both Ion and Homer are moved by divine inspiration or enthusiasm, rather
    than by the possession of any sort of knowledge.

    He also makes an analogy between this process of communication of enthusiasm from one
    person to another and the communication of magnetic force from a magnet to iron rings.

    COMMUNICATION
    of Power from its Source Divine Force
    GOD or MUSE

    Divine Inspiration
    Magnetic Force

    Poet as Creator HOMER

    Divine Inspiration
    Magnetic Force

    Rhapsode as Interpreter ION

    Divine Inspiration

    Magnetic Force

    AUDIENCE for the Poetic Performance of HOMER by I

    ReasonIO: philosophy into practice

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