Inspiration, Intelligence, and Cosmos: The Worldview of the Rhapsode and Poet versus Plato and Reason

• In Event: Plato on the Uses of Reason, Rhetoric, and Law

Brief Overview

Past societies took worldviews from Homer, the Bible, and nightly news (1960s-80s). Today no voice provides such an image to the People. Plato's concern with inferior worldviews is now replaced by our concern with no worldview—and no People.

Author

• Richard Barrett, Mount Mercy University