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admits that while Homer discusses many different skills in his poetry, he never refers specifically to the rhapsode's craft, which is acting. Socrates presses him about the exact nature of his skill. Ion maintains that his knowledge makes him a capable military general but states that when he recites passages concerning military matters, he cannot tell whether he does it with a general's skill, or with a rhapsode's. Socrates notices that Ion changes his occupation. He was first a rhapsode and then has become a general. He asks Ion why he flip flops from one profession to the other and Ion states that Athens is currently not in need of generals, especially foreign-born ones. Socrates lists off a few foreign-born Athenian generals of the time and the rhapsode backtracks. Socrates gently berates the rhapsode for being Protean, which after all, is exactly what a rhapsode is: a man who is convincingly capable of being different people on stage.
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out of his mind when he acts, because he can weep even though he has lost nothing, and recoil in fear when in front of an admiring audience. Ion says that the explanation for this is very simple: it is the promise of payment that inspires his deliberate disconnection from reality. Ion says that when he looks at the audience and sees them weeping, he knows he will laugh because it has made him richer, and that when they laugh, he will be weeping at losing the money (535e).
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Socrates offers the metaphor of a magnet to explain how the rhapsode transmits the poet's original inspiration from the muse to the audience. He says that the god speaks first to the poet, then gives the rhapsode his skill, and thus, gods communicate to the people. Socrates posits that Ion must be
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Ion tells Socrates that he cannot be convinced that he is possessed or mad when he performs (536d,e). Socrates then recites passages from Homer which concern various arts such as medicine, divining, fishing, and making war. He asks Ion if these skills are distinct from his art of recitation. Ion
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Schleiermacher as a consequence of his early dating of the Phaedrus, this objection and many others persisted until the end of the 20th century, however, the most recent studies in the field of dialogue research all tend to acknowledge in unanimous agreement the dialogue as Platonic.
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Through his character Socrates, Plato argues that "Ion’s talent as an interpreter cannot be an art, a definable body of knowledge or an ordered system of skills," but instead must come from the divine inspiration of the
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so Socrates' suggestion that Ion should serve as a general to the Athenian soldiers is not the non-sequitur it may at first appear when these circumstances are taken into account.
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would warn him against making mistakes but would never directly order him to do something. Plato develops a more elaborate critique of poetry in other dialogues such as in
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of these poets say. Furthermore, this man is probably not the poet, like Ion, but a specialist like a doctor, who knows better about nutrition.
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Greek with translation by Harold N. Fowler and W. R. M. Lamb. Loeb Classical Library 164. Harvard Univ. Press (originally published 1925).
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Socrates deduces from this observation that Ion has no real skill, but is like a soothsayer or prophet in being divinely possessed:
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Schleiermacher, F. D. E. (1804). Über die Philosophie Platons. Geschichte der Philosophie. Vorlesungen über Sokrates und Platon.
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Giuliano, F. M. (2005). Platone e la poesía. Teoria della composizione e prassi della ricezione. San Agustín, Academia Verlag.
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Murray, P. (1996). Plato on Poetry. Ion, Republic 376e-398b, Republic 595-608b. Cambridge/UK, Cambridge University Press.
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Socrates, the Greek philosopher. In this dialogue, he questions the nature of art and of divine inspiration.
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Capuccino, C. (2010). Filosofia e Rapsodi, traducción y comentario de Ione platonico. Boloña, CLUEB.
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perceives it as a critique of unjustified belief rather than a critique of poetry in general.
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also holds specific significance to Socrates because during his defense in
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Plato's argument is supposed to be an early example of a so-called
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On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates
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Ed. J. M. Cooper and D. S. Hutchinson. Hackett, 1997.
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discusses with the titular character, a professional
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Performance of Literature in Historical Perspectives
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Ion's choice: To be skilled or inspired (536e–542a)
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Index

Ion (Plato)
a series
Platonism

Life
Theory of forms
Form of the Good
Theory of soul
Epistemology
Political philosophy
Euthyphro dilemma
Demiurge
Atlantis
The Republic
Allegory of the cave
Analogy of the Sun
Analogy of the divided line
Philosopher king
Ship of State
Ring of Gyges
Myth of Er
The works of Plato
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Cratylus
Theaetetus
Sophist
Statesman

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