... 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 ... in their ontological and epistemological views of the world. There are other factors, too, which complicate the matter. In Book II of The Republic, Plato begins a discussion of poetry which is concerned with gods and heroes. He condemns much of this poetry as lies, "and s...

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