@article{ART001616089},
author={Jung-Hee Chu},
title={The Meaning of Myth in Plato’s Thought},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2011},
volume={34},
pages={151-179}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jung-Hee Chu
TI - The Meaning of Myth in Plato’s Thought
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2011
VL - 34
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 151
EP - 179
SN - 1229-0246
AB - Plato makes use of traditional mythology or inventional mythology mixed his own imagination with themes of traditional mythology. Plato's myth embodies philosophical account that has a narrative form.
Generally, studies of Plato's myth are related with the doctrine that poets are banished from the ideal state. These have negative attitude on Plato's myth from a socio-political and ethical point of view. On the contrary, there are peoples who are interested in inner necessity of Plato's myth. These are concerned with the way Plato interweaves philosophy with myth and have attention to the role of myth in Plato's philosophy.
This thesis attempts to inquiring on the meaning of myth in Plato's philosophy. First, Plato's myth is influenced by pre-socratic philosophers, sophists and Socrates. Also it is deeply concerned with his tendency of a thinker and poet in overcoming the limit of his cognitive faculty he experiences when he take a contemplative view on Idea.
Also, this thesis deals with the myth's function in his thought and the development of thought. Plato used so many various and vivid myths with figurative expressions and images as efficient means of persuasion intended to make the less philosophically inclined as well as children. For Plato, the myth is a means of leading to logical argument and of presenting the invisible world of truth. The myth's importance went on increasing gradually and the relation of myth and Idea has more and more strengthened in Plato's philosophical discourse from his early to the middle period. Some of his late works was comprised with only mythical forms. The idea is the central theme in his myths, as in his thought. Plato strategically arranged and transformed myths towards Idea.
Plato thought of myth as a means of presenting invisible world that can not be approached through the way of the logical explaining. The mythical forms by images and metaphorical expressions could had seen us the world that words can not express. By using myths in the philosophical discourse, he is restricted neither by the sensory nor by the logical limits of conception. In a word, it is mythical forms as the worlds of free images revealed the hidden truth that Plato, for Idea as his main theme, required no less than the logical account.
KW - Idea;image;mythical form;the means of persuasion;the myth's function;the relation of myth and Idea;the role of myth
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Jung-Hee Chu. (2011). The Meaning of Myth in Plato’s Thought. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 34, 151-179.
Jung-Hee Chu. 2011, "The Meaning of Myth in Plato’s Thought", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.34, pp.151-179.
Jung-Hee Chu "The Meaning of Myth in Plato’s Thought" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 34 pp.151-179 (2011) : 151.
Jung-Hee Chu. The Meaning of Myth in Plato’s Thought. 2011; 34 151-179.
Jung-Hee Chu. "The Meaning of Myth in Plato’s Thought" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 34(2011) : 151-179.
Jung-Hee Chu. The Meaning of Myth in Plato’s Thought. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 34, 151-179.
Jung-Hee Chu. The Meaning of Myth in Plato’s Thought. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2011; 34 151-179.
Jung-Hee Chu. The Meaning of Myth in Plato’s Thought. 2011; 34 151-179.
Jung-Hee Chu. "The Meaning of Myth in Plato’s Thought" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 34(2011) : 151-179.
