"...someone might perchance suppose the poet means not
new songs, but a new way of song, and praises that. Such
a saying shouldn't be praised, nor should this one be taken
in that sense. For they must beware of change to a
strange form of music, taking it to be a danger to the
whole. For never are the ways of music moved without the
greatest political laws being moved, ..."
(It's better to create than destroy what's unnecessary)
Sunday, June 29, 2008
The Republic - pg. 102
Labels: Plato
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