A Survey of Aesthetic Ideas in Plato’s Literary Theories

Literature and aesthetics have similarities,both of which are a kind of ideology and can endow us a satisfaction of people’s spiritual need and purify and sublimate people’s mind.And there is something interwoven in the two disciplines.Plato,as a early western literary theorist,has also delved into the discipline of aesthetics.This article is a general analysis of his aesthetic ideas in his works.