Plato, The Ion - Poetry And Divine Inspiration - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's dialogue, the Ion, during which Socrates questions Ion, a rhapsode, about his art.

It focuses specifically on Socrates' theory about Poetry expressed there, namely that the Poets (and also their interpreters, the Rhapsodes, like Ion) don't actually possess and work from knowledge, but rather are divinely possessed or inspired.

Socrates sets out an analogy -- the action of the god on the poet, and the poet on the audience is like magnetic force running from a magnet to an iron ring, and communicating that magnetic attraction to the next ring, and the next. . .

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