Plato and art censorship (fwd)

[Stanislav Tchernyshov]

It's an interesting observation, just let's not forget that the
Communist states clamed to be, and were to some respect, egalitarian,
while Plato's Republic for sure wasn't. That is, these two models are
different in the sense of their view of the human nature. In Plato's
state the criteria used to judge works of art were "anthropological",
while in the Souiet Union the approach was more "sociological".

Stanislav Tchernyshov
Academic Supervisor

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