Plato argues that art is mimetic and serves no real purpose. In The Republic he states that art is a poor copy of the world around us and has no utility. While Plato states that art does not serve any real purpose, he still insists it holds some threat to society. The only real use for art is deception and to pervert humanity. He therefore fears art and tries to discredit it and attempts to ban it from the city. Danto considers this the pinnacle moment in the disenfranchisement of art. In fact, Danto takes it one step further; questioning the possibility that philosophy only exists to neutralize art. While I do not agree philosophy was created purely to discredit art, if for some reason, however, philosophy was birthed out of some attempt