Jiang says Plato uses the cave to argue that art, poetry, and drama are honored by humans but are lies because they belong to the shadow world.
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Jiang says Plato uses the cave to argue that art, poetry, and drama are honored by humans but are lies because they belong to the shadow world.
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"...is saying is that we may honor art and poetry and drama, but they're all lies, okay? Now, one day, for whatever reason, we..."
"...right? So I'm not sure if you've ever watched a Korean drama. Have you watched a Korean TV drama?"
"The same situation here where it's a silly television drama. It's all fake. Once people watch too much of it, they want it to..."
"...point out, is that eventually we'll get sick of all this drama and switch our attention elsewhere. And this is what happens, right?"
"...so um he talks about the theater in athens okay the drama in athens or who wheresoever else it may have approached to"
"...cherish in it as a creation of their choice in a drama of the highest order there is little food for censor or hatred..."
"...wisdom let's create empathy let's create morality and that's why Greek drama is so important okay now let's look at another passage But tense..."
"...as you can see not as much tension not as much drama as in the Vint da Vinci's all right and this is the..."
"...investigate all right you can see the anxiety the stress the drama in"
"...Do I mean nothing to you? We can imagine the family drama and the comedy. Right? Laban's like you know what if after seven..."
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