Saturday, July 26, 2025

Plato's objections to artistic freedom

This blog has been written as part of an assignment given by Prof. Dr. Dilip Barad Sir, drawing insights from a recent controversy in literature, film, or the arts that echoes Plato's objections to artistic freedom.



I selected this topic to delve into Plato’s perspective on artistic expression and to examine how his objections to poetry and art continue to echo in today’s debates over, films, and other forms of creative content.

Plato is not only great philosopher from Greek but he was a student of Socrates. Plato wrote many books like 'The Republic', 'The Apology' and many books. The Republic is most known work by him and in it he discuss about freedom of artist, theory of mimesis, theory of cave and etc. Plato was against of poets(writers) and say, "poets should be banished from the ideal republic". He thinks like artistic freedom is not good for our society and morality!


• why we still discuss about plato's philosophy or theory?

Cause we saw freedom is sometime bacame dangerous for anyone. Sometime we forget about morality, our roots and etc. So, it's important to discuss about plato's thinks.

I think not all time but sometimes it's not good cause many literary works (novel, films, songs) give us moral and kindness. Teach us to give respect to our parents or old people like Bagban movie. We give freedom to child like 3 idiots and Tare zameen par. 

But many films, series, and song proov that artistic freedom is not good and by them public being angry!

1. AASHRAM: 

This is a series. Series has themes like power, feminism, and social blindness. Bobby Deval is lead character. This story is give a phycho idea to people like being two faced man. Infront of people he became a sent and in privet he became a devil.

Plato's objections: In this series people being more emotional and angry and spread many illegal massages to public and it's don't give us any moral.


2. PADMAVAT: 

Padmavat is most judgemental movie of 2018. Mostly Rajput people want this movie don't realise but they only change the name of movie 'Padmavati to Padmavat'.

Plato's objections: In this movie we saw dream of Allauddin for Padamati which spreed wrong massages. It's don't give any moral and also it's not religious which connects us with God.


Many other series and movies like, "Mirzapur'', "The Kashmir Files", "Udta Punjab", "The Dirty Picture" and etc. which proves artistic freedom became dangerous sometimes.

Palto think that, Art is not mainly nagetive but more freedom is nagetive.


Reference:

Plato's artistic freedom





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