Analogy of Plato's Cave
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- Created on: 16-02-15 13:13
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- Plato's Cave
- The Analogy
- 1) The Analogy is set in a cave
- 2) At the back of the cave there are prisoners
- Bound up to only face the back wall
- Never seeing the enterance
- There since birth, this is all they know
- Bound up to only face the back wall
- 3) Behind the prisoners there is a fire and a walkway
- 4) Occasionally someone would walk past
- Their shadow was projected onto back wall
- The prisoners would also hear the noise of the people
- Associated the two and thought this was the true form
- This was all they knew
- Associated the two and thought this was the true form
- The prisoners would also hear the noise of the people
- Their shadow was projected onto back wall
- 5) One of the prisoners breaks free and runs for the way out
- The run was long and painful
- 6) When he got outside he was blinded and hurt by the light
- Eventually got used to it and saw beauty
- 7) The prisoner rushes back to tell the others what he has seen
- 8) The others don't like what he has seen
- They conspire to kill him
- Used
- To demonstrate the path of enlightenment
- To explain the link of worlds
- Real World
- An 'illusion' according to Plato
- Empirical Knowledge tricks us
- Knowledge gained through senses
- A posteriori
- We experience imperfect copies of Universals
- Particulars
- Hold the essence of something
- Dogness
- Treeness
- Chairness
- Which is why we ask 'what kind of tree is that?' and not 'what is that?'
- We are able to recognize essence as our souls are from the Realm of Forms
- Hold the essence of something
- The body is imperfect as it changes
- Particulars
- Knowledge gained through senses
- Empirical Knowledge tricks us
- An 'illusion' according to Plato
- Realm of Forms
- The realm where every object exists in it's perfect form
- Cannot change as they are perfection
- The 'Universals'
- We experience imperfect copies of Universals
- Particulars
- Hold the essence of something
- Dogness
- Treeness
- Chairness
- Which is why we ask 'what kind of tree is that?' and not 'what is that?'
- We are able to recognize essence as our souls are from the Realm of Forms
- Hold the essence of something
- The body is imperfect as it changes
- Particulars
- We experience imperfect copies of Universals
- The 'Universals'
- Cannot change as they are perfection
- The realm where every object exists in it's perfect form
- Real World
- Meaning behind the Analogy
- 1) This is representation of the real world
- 2) The prisoners are the unenlightened
- 3 + 4) The representation that empirical knowledge is tricking us
- 5) The one that breaks free is the philosopher and his need to learn
- It was painful as the path to enlightenment hurts
- 6) The new way of thinking hurts so he is blinded
- The Sun represents the Form of the Good
- The beauty is the perfection of the Realm of Forms
- 7+8) The Philosopher wants to tell the others what he has learnt
- They reject his ideas as they oppose everything they know
- So they try to eliminate the treat
- They reject his ideas as they oppose everything they know
- The Analogy
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