Ion
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Status:
- Vollständiges Werk
- Autorschaft:
- Vom Autor verfasst
- Zustand des Textes:
- Kein Scanrauschen festgestellt (automatische Messung über den ganzen Text, nicht von Hand geprüft)
- Umfang:
- ~6.320 Wörter · 30 Passagen
Dieses Werk zitieren
- APAPlaton. (n.d.). Ion. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/plato/ion
- MLAPlaton. Ion. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/de/works/plato/ion.
- ChicagoPlaton. Ion. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/plato/ion.
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Wovon es handelt
Ein Rhapsode, der Homer vorträgt, kann nicht erklären, warum er es gut macht. Sokrates schließt, dass der Dichter weder durch Kunst noch durch Wissen wirkt, sondern durch göttliche Besessenheit.
Kontext und Geschichte
Der kürzeste Dialog über die Eingebung und der erste Text, der das Dichten vom Verstehen der Dichtung trennt. Das Bild des Magneten, der seine Kraft an den nächsten Ring weitergibt — Gott, Dichter, Rhapsode, Publikum —, durchzieht die ganze Geschichte der Ästhetik.
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SOCRATES: But how did you come to have this skill about Homer only, and not about Hesiod or the other poets? Does not Homer speak of the same themes which all other poets handle? Is not war his great argument? and does he not speak of human society and of intercourse of men, good and bad, skilled and unskilled, and of the gods conversing with one another and with mankind, and about what happens in heaven and in the world below, and the generations of gods and heroes? Are not these the themes of which Homer sings? ION: Very true, Socrates. SOCRATES: And do not the other poets sing of the same? ION: Yes, Socrates; but not in the same way as Homer. SOCRATES: What, in a worse way? ION: Yes, in a far worse. SOCRATES: And Homer in a better way? ION: He is incomparably better. SOCRATES: And yet surely, my dear friend Ion, in a discussion about arithmetic, where many people are speaking, and one speaks better than the rest, there is somebody who can judge which of them is the good speaker? ION: Yes. SOCRATES: And he who judges of the good will be the same as he who judges of the bad speakers? ION: The same. SOCRATES: And he will be the arithmetician? ION: Yes. SOCRATES: Well, and in discussions about the wholesomeness of food, when many persons are speaking, and one speaks better than the rest, will he who recognizes the better speaker be a different person from him who recognizes the worse, or the same? ION: Clearly the same. SOCRATES: And who is he, and what is his name? ION: The physician. SOCRATES: And speaking generally, in all discussions in which the subject is the same and many men are speaking, will not he who knows the good know the bad speaker also? For if he does not know the bad, neither will he know the good when the same topic is being discussed. ION: True. SOCRATES: Is not the same person skilful in both? ION: Yes.…