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A case for censorship may be presented with reference to a host of impeccably classical resources. The most famous example is that of Plato's favoring censorship. Poets themselves--except those who would affirm the prevailing culture--would be banned in Plato's Republic. Indeed, Plato appears to offer direct support for censorship of all art.

Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship of writers of fiction, and let the censors receive any tale of fiction which is good, and reject the bad; and we will desire mothers and nurses to tell their children the authorised ones only (Plato Rep. Book II).

Lest modern-day censorship advocates eager to preserve, as it were, family values, derive comfort from this declaration, it might be noted that it is a commonplace of the censorship debate that Plato was a poet; that the Symposium is nothing if not poetic, lyrical; and that the kind of love celebrated in the Symposium is between man and

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er. The author identifies radical (in favor of censorship to combat pornography) and "libertarian" (against censorship as a means of challenging pornography) views on the subject. Doubtless only a male could frame an entire chapter around the male response to what feminists are saying about their feelings about pornography, and one suspects presentation of this analysis might have been the author's main reason for writing the book. Nevertheless, the competing social philosophies surrounding the juxtaposition of personal liberty, sexuality, and sexual exploitation are not badly presented. Burr, John R., and Goldinger, Miton, eds. Philosophy and Contemporary Issues. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. The most contemporarily relevant segment in this textbook is the debate between Walter Berns ("Beyond the (Garbage) Pale: The Case for Censorship") and Marshall Cohen ("The Case Against Censorship"). Berns's overarching point, made chiefly by means of specious readings of classical rhetoricians and philosophers, is that society is entitled to legislate its notions of decency and suppress pornography, implying that the state even has an interest in the form that creative art takes. Cohen's overarching point is that to th
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