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A 3 page essay that relates lyrics from Bob Dylan's song "Jokerman" to the beliefs of ancient Greek philosophers on censorship and freedom of information. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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With these lines, the songwriter suggests that it is not enough to have political freedom in name only, as the "truth" can still be distant, unattainable, and therefore useless. In
other words, if those in charge politically control the free flow of information, the populace is not truly free as manipulation of information can be used as a tool for
political and social control. Whether or not information should be freely available or censored has been a topic for discussion since the time of ancient Greece. It can be
argued that Socrates was against censorship and for the free-flow of information and knowledge as this stance is why he was executed by Athenian authorities (Beck). However, Plato defended censorship
as a means by which the state can maintain control over certain undesirable "religious, artistic and intellectual ideas" (Beck). In Platos the Republic, Plato argued that "poesis" should be strictly
controlled and censored (Johnston). While Plato acknowledged that poets, such as Homer, should be honored, he also argued that they should be escorted to the "borders" of the state and
told that they had "no place" in an "ideal community" (Johnston). Limitations placed on artistic endeavor, i.e. censorship, are rationalized according to the same ideation that Plato presents in
the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Feminists argue something similar when they say that depictions of women as sexualized
objects conveys a false picture of women that serves to dehumanize them (Johnston). Pornography, even in its mildest forms, offers an "immature and fundamentally incorrect view" of what constitutes "appropriate
relationships between men and women (Johnston). This argument resembles the one made by Socrates and related by Plato in the Republic, which maintains that there are "standards of truth" to
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