Strengths
• As a rationalist, Plato essentially wants to convince you that the physical world around us is an illusion – that it doesn’t provide us with absolute, certain and universal truth. This can only be gained a priori.
• The analogy (at face value) seems convincing. After all, how well do we know the universe? (as we shall see with the world of quantum physics!)
• It may be that there really is more to life than what we can know through our senses, e.g. as in the Matrix.
• Plato certainly believed that the ‘passions’ or emotion clouded our rational minds – we become fixated on material, physical concerns which blind people to what is really important.
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