3/27 Republic assignment

1. Short Paragraph – Personal Reflection: Before reading the selection from Plato write at least one full paragraph on this question: Why do you think Plato (or anyone else) would want to censor Hesiod? Remember that Hesiod was the poet who wrote about the fight between the gods and the titans.
I think that Plato or any one else would want to censor Hesiod because it talks bad about the gods and goddesses. He would write poetry talkin about what the gods did. For example he said that fathers would eat their children and that husbands would cheat on their wifes. He would write things that would make people think that the gods were basically like humans because they did what humans do today but even worst because they kill their own children for power. Plato writes about how the gods should be seen as good inmortal people.

a. What are Homer and Hesiod guilty of?
They are guilty of presenting a wrong image of the gods.
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b. What are the two main characteristics of “god” and what are the laws/principles of story telling based on those characteristics?
The to main characteristics that the gods have are that they never tell lies and that and that gods are the cause, not of all things, but only the good.
4. Compare what you wrote in your personal reflection above (#1) with what Plato wrote. How close were you to what Plato wrote?
I think that i was very close to what Plato thought. I was actually right. because if you think about it what i wrote makes sense.