... numerous and oftentimes rather obscure, so the reader would do well to focus instead on the less numerous justifications that Plato cites for banning things in his aristocracy. In fact, there are only two arguments that Plato presents over the course of The Republic to justify banning things in the city, but each argument is extremely important in its own right. It should ... banish poets and various types of speech from his city. Specifically, he wants poets not admitted into the city because poetry "produces a bad regime in the soul of each private man by making phantoms that are very...

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