As a commentary, I would like to expand more on how Plato’s arguments to attack Ion where done out

of his personal dislike or bias for that of poetry. While it is understandable that this can be a critique of
how the education system was like in ancient Greece, it is still a flawed position to argue from a serious
perspective. It was mentioned by Tina how he uses the claim that “as long as a human being has his
intellect in his possession he will always lack the power to make poetry or sing prophecy.”, unless it was
meant to be taken seriously, this claim is too capricious of an argument to make as it insinuates that
there can be no general knowledge across all facets and aspects of learning different skills and that only
specialization is apparent in reality. While Plato may be cunning in that sort of regard to not indicate
whether he was being sincere or not when writing about Ion and portraying him in a more moronic light,
it is nonetheless given me a divisive take on how Greek philosophers such as Plato conduct themselves
when trying to make a point about something by using a contradictory and pedantic framework to
operate their points on.