... quot;. The criteria, namely the aesthetic, dealt with the "general intellectual distinction". This has resulted in value judgement, particularly to the non-great-books. Social background, linguistic, ideology, and other conditional circumstances, then, had no means. Third, the term of 'literature' ought to be limited at ... It can be said that Plato had a very dim view of imitation art due to an obsession with truth or "forms". In Books II and III this claim can hardly be justified, however; Plato does not condemn all imitation, but that imitation which is harmful to the ... mimesi...

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