Plato counterposed reason to emotion. I think he said, emotions corrupt reason. That's why he wanted to send poets to exile. He opposed bards who used to tell s

Plato counterposed reason to emotion. I think he said, emotions corrupt reason. That's why he wanted to send poets to exile. He opposed bards who used to tell stories by going from place to another. Ancient Skeptics (both Pyrrhonian and Academic) and Ancient Cynics supported bards; btw, these Skeptics were not like modern (epistemic) skeptics. Epistemic skepticism is all about infinite regress, whereas Ancient skeptics were saying something different: practices don't need foundation in reason.