Abstract:

In Plato's Ion, Socrates dismisses the "inspired" creations of poetic or other art as genuine forms of knowledge or techne, foreshadowing his later suspicion and (even) condemnation of the human value of art in such later dialogues as Republic. I argue that while Socrates raises a serious issue, this ancient case for inherent opposition or contradiction between inspiration and knowledge rests upon some failure (or unwillingness) to appreciate that epistemic capacities and concerns often have different forms and purposes in the nonliteral, figurative, and rhetorical sphere of poetic and other literary arts from those of more literal or factual knowledge.

摘要：

在柏拉图的《离子》中，苏格拉底将诗歌或其他艺术的“灵感”创作视为真正的知识或技术形式，这预示着他后来在《理想国》等后来的对话中对艺术的人类价值的怀疑和（甚至）谴责。我认为，虽然苏格拉底提出了一个严肃的问题，但这个关于灵感与知识之间内在对立或矛盾的古老案例是基于某种未能（或不愿意）认识到认知能力和关注点在非字面的、比喻的和诗歌和其他文学艺术的修辞领域来自于那些更多的文字或事实知识。