1. Socrates
This is why Socrates feels that the arts, such as poetry, should be censored; it would help decrease the digression of society's intellect. ... This is a form of "eye candy" which is society's form of entertainment, rather than looking for the meaning of life and the good in the world. ... They would more easily be able to differentiate between the true meaning of life from the surface meaning of life. ... This produces a society that does not care about finding the meaning of life; a self-centered group which is limited to the outskirts of realism and cannot focus on truth. ... Ho...
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- Grade Level: High School