在希腊 ,柏拉图虽然很重视文学的道德功能 ,但他否定文学的根本理由仍然是从本体论的认知角度着眼的。在他看来 ,作为现象的感性世界是对于作为本体的理念世界的摹仿 ,作为摹仿的史诗和悲剧又是对感性的现象世界的摹仿 ,因而文学就成了和真理隔着三层的摹仿的摹仿 ,影子的影子 Although Greece attaches great importance to the moral function of literature, Plato denied that the fundamental reason of literature is still from the perspective of ontology cognition. In his view, the perceptual world as a phenomenon imitates the world of ideas as an ontology, the epic and the tragedy as imitations and the imitation of the perceptual phenomenal world, so that literature becomes separated from the truth by three levels of imitation Imitation, the shadow of the shadow