Why Banish the Poets Then?
Plato's harmonic endorsement of music, musicians and the metaphysics of mathematics is in part due to it's applied geometric imagining. Copycats or imposters of his perfected ideal are not welcome.
Charles Péguy's two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism, but by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing but non-practicing Roman Catholic.
Plato's harmonic endorsement of music, musicians and the metaphysics of mathematics is in part due to it's applied geometric imagining. Copycats or imposters of his perfected ideal are not welcome.
Sometimes I also come up blank, rarely so do I not have a responsion or something to counter with, being witty, contradictory or clever. When wit fails and stairs are blank, sometimes the best response is from a blank slate. The canvas is yours my friend, the only theme is a pedadoggy!