Analogy of the cave
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- Created on: 04-02-17 13:45
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- Analogy of the cave
- When the prisoners are in the cave there is no way that they can begin to question the 'essence' of different aspects of their wolrd
- As far as they are concerned, they already know the answers
- They can only hear voices and echos of voices
- unable to distinguish between reality and appearance
- They do not even know that there is any difference
- Nothing they perceive with their senses gives them true information
- They think the shadows are real objects
- They are completely unaware of their own ignorance
- When he escapes he doesn't want to go because he has been comfortable with his life of ignorance
- Much like we are when we don't like listening to the view of Philosophers.
- How can we be ignorant in our knowledge if we know no better?
- Much like we are when we don't like listening to the view of Philosophers.
- When he escapes he doesn't want to go because he has been comfortable with his life of ignorance
- unable to distinguish between reality and appearance
- He wants us to know that when we begin to question the world around us and wonder what is real and what is illusionary, it is a painful experience.
- The prisoner adjusts to his new life
- His wisdom grows, he begins to recognise the importance of the sun in illuminating all of his other knowledge
- The sun is the form of the good
- The cave with its shadows is something we experierience when we are ignorant of the Form of the Good
- The sun gives structure his new life and the sun enables him to see things as they really are
- The prisoner represents those who undertake phillosophy
- Those in the cave represent those who like to like an 'unexamined life' and who are content to be impressed with appearances
- Those who persevere and take the steep slope out of the cave recognise their inate ability to seek the truth
- Reality is invisible
- When the prisoners are in the cave there is no way that they can begin to question the 'essence' of different aspects of their wolrd
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