... Terrence Eagleton, attempts to make sense of it all during the introduction of his 1983 book, What is Literature. He described literature as, "imaginative writing in the sense of fiction" (Eagleton 1). If one then believes that 'writing in the sense of fiction' is the meaning of literature then who is it that decides what is true and untrue - and thus ultimately, literature? Says Eagleton, "A distinction between 'fact and 'fiction,' then, seems ... (Republic, II, p24). Many stories, Plato is saying, are not imitations of any reality but are outright falsities, on the grounds that since ...

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... the one he/she should, i.e. just. One is able to be this type of person only in the State that balances passions, disappearing in "the unity of reason-, and where each individual "loses himself- as a private person in the rationality of State. State is the embodiment of justice, which can't be embodied through separate individuals and their virtues, it can exist only in the connexion that leads to the universal. Only that State can be just that acts ... and property "Res Publica- contains. In Aristotle's view the function of ethics is to unite different aims of human behavior: to define...

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