Excerpt from Five Dialogues of Plato: Bearing on Poetic Inspiration Jassages which seem most to glow with the enthusiasm of ooetry, are of great importance to Plato's logical theory. The truth is that if Plato is poetic, it is not because he ever subordinates philosophy to poetry, but because he takes what be called a poetic view of knowledge. He emphasizes asserts the importance in knowledge and in logic of the ent of the immediate and the intuitive. While always ting on exact argument and careful logical reasoning, e makes all reasoning depend finally on intellectual insight nd vision which is immediate. Hence if we are to con truct from Plato any theory of the function of poetry igher than the low one which he expressly assigns to it, it following him in his appreciation of the logical of immediate insight, and then by showing how in its way claim a share in that philosophical latter part of the argument will not be Plato's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.