Plato, in the “Republic “, ambitiously sets out to prove...

Plato, in the â€Å"Republic â€Å", ambitiously sets out to prove that art imitates reality by distracting us from the truth and appeals to socially destructive emotions. He continued his statement by referring that art provides no real knowledge, and that it undermines personal and social well being. In this paper, I will argue that Plato makes an invalid implicit assumption that the representation of life through arts is dangerous and doesn’t define the truth since it uses imitation. I will demonstrate that art might be misleading and can indeed influence the development of one’s moral character; however, it can be beneficial as it purges the tragic emotions. Moreover, art, as a philosophical branch, is using the same emotive and rational methods†¦show more content†¦338d). Furthermore, Plato uses art through images and metaphors to subvert reality in his book to represent forms and reach the truth. To demonstrate, the ring of Gyges, the noble lie (the nob le falsehood), the cave analogy, and the myth of Er (Plato.2009.359c- 621b) are all metaphors and imitations of life that aims to help Socrates to explain the definition of the just man and just society. Thus, despite the fact that Plato believes that art is dangerous since it is just an imitation of the truth, but not truth itself, he doesn’t hesitate to use them to obtain the results of understanding life. Additionally, even though both philosophical writing and peosis can use logical fallacies such as appeal to emotion to make the transaction between the sender and the receiver easy, both of them are used to represent the knowledge of the forms. Equally, consequently, are valid means of operating through and yet excel imitation in the chase of truth. Plato’s isn’t the only philosopher who believes that arts can be dangerous and it doesn’t represent the truth, but just an imitation of the truth. Oscar Wild, a British philosopher, believes that art doesn’t represent the real life, but life represents art. Oscar Wild claims that† Life holds the mirror up to Art, and either reproduces some strange type imagined by a painter or sculptor, or realizes in fact what has been dreamed in fiction. In addition, Nature is no great mother who has