Plato

Greek Theatre Aristotle Socrates [|Phaedrus] xxxmedia type="youtube" key="1RWOpQXTltA" height="154" width="274"media type="youtube" key="TYKNAdbhQ-w" height="155" width="274"

[|"The Republic" by Plato] Compare the "Allegory of the Cave" with "The Country of the Blind" "Plato in //The Republic// has Socrates warn about the difficulty of ever attaining real truth. Socrates’ **metaphor of the three beds** illustrates the problem of the **degeneration** from the ideal to the banal: the first bed made by God is the Platonic ideal; a carpenter then makes a second bed in imitation of that ideal bed; and the artist subsequently makes a third bed in imitation of the carpenter’s imitation of the ideal bed. Subsequent imitators then capture less and less of the ideal. They might graze the reality of a carpenter making a bed or of an artist painting a carpenter making a bed, but they can never attain the true ideal of the original creation. " http://www.greanvillepost.com/2011/04/20/mimesis-and-the-state-of-us-democracy/