Plato and art censorship (fwd)

[Stanislav Tchernyshov]

          Adrian wrote:
        For what it's worth, here are the opening and closing statements
on Plato
        from "Kratkii filosofskii slovar'" (4th ed., Moscow, 1954):

        PLATON--drevnegrecheskii filosof-idealist, zleishii vrag
materializma,
        nauki, protivnik afinskoi demokratii, otstaivavshii v svoikh
politicheskikh
        i filosofskikh vzgliadakh interesy reaktsionnoi afinskoi
aristokratii.
        [...]  Uchenie Platona stalo istochnikom mnogikh reaktsionnykh,
        antinauchnykh, misticheskikh kontseptsii.  Na platonovskoe
uchenie v
        nastoiashchee vremia opiraiutsia ideologi imperializma v bor'be
protiv
        nauki i revoliutsionnogo dvizheniia mass.

        Ya i govoru: these two models are
different in the sense of their view of the human nature. *slightly*
different. That's it.

Stanislav Tchernyshov
Academic Supervisor

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