Plato
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- Created on: 11-05-13 15:13
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- Plato
- Analogy of the cave
- The Cave
- the delusion of supposed reality, the blindness of misunderstanding
- The Sun
- Form of Good
- The Objectives
- the ideal forms - the realm of ideas
- The Cave
- The Forms
- Every concept or object in the material world has an unseen reality, a.k.a. FORMS
- Source of all knowledge
- Humans have a prior understanding of forms, and some kind of amnesia of forms
- Concept of the Ideals
- What *you* see and think is real is only a reflection of a higher truth
- Developed a vision of two worlds
- A worlds of unchanging ideas
- A worlds of changing physical objects
- Ideas are more real than things
- Concept and Phenomena
- Concept
- An abstract idea or a mental symbol that has a corresponding representation in a language
- Phenomena
- Any occurrence that is observable. Phenomena may be perceived through a person's senses or with their mind
- Concept
- Divided Line
- The vision of real trees and real clouds outside the cave represent the intelligible realm
- The cavern images that are projected onto the back of the cave by the fire represent physical things in the physical worlds
- The vision of the sun represents the Form of Good
- The shadows in the back of the cave wall represent the illusion of truth or reality
- Analogy of the cave
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