"哲学と文献学の新たな仲違い" : プラトーンの詩人論を解釈するコリンウッド

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R. G. Collingwood in The Principles of Art (1938) discusses Plato's theory of poetry in Republic 10, coming to the general conclusion that not poetry as a whole but only the representative part of it was banished from his ideal state. The three footnotes (pages 46 and 48) given in this connection on grammatical interpretation of specific passages in the original Greek text catch the reader's eye with their disproportionate minuteness. This paper attempts to make clear his motive for this by examining his reading of the original passages as well as the framework in which the subject is dealt with in The Principles of Art, by comparing it with his earlier essay "Plato's Philosophy of Art", to which he expressly refers in one of the three notes, and by matching his theory of art and representation with that of Plato's. These investigations show that Collingwood, while mostly keeping sound in philological terms, wanted to interpret Plato's criticism of representation to conform to his own conception of it. According to Collingwood, Plato failed to distinguish between magical representation and amusement representation, with the result that Plato attacked representation at large, instead, as he should, of amusement representation only. It was under such a scheme that the modern philosopher gave the seemingly superfluous philological notes.
2012-03-00