"Ion"

Plato’s take on the human genius only falls short of my opinion about it. His
theory is that humans are only geniuses because they are “possessed” by something.
He mentions poetry in “Ion” that “All good poets utter all those fine poems of theirs not
through skill, but when inspired and possessed”(Ion, 5). Personally, it bothers me to
think that our past-on geniuses may have been spiritually taken over my something out
of the blue and, therefore, would create or have a “genius” idea about something.
Plato’s argument really sounds unrealistic because not everyone of us are gifted to be as
smart as like Beethoven, for example. However, each one of us does have some type of
knowledge about certain things that others don’t, furthermore, that “genius” that we have
in us does not mean that we are possessed by some kind of power. The only part that I
agree with Plato is when he mentions the inspirational reinforcement of genius.
Inspiration is always an emphasis to me when hearing about a great idea or plan, etc. It
is definitely possible to be inspired by something and come up with a “genius” idea
afterwards