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Allegory of the Cave: Plato

Allegory of the Cave: Plato

Jowett, Benjamin
Plato

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Series: Plato

Ancient Greece

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ISBN10: 1539078574
ISBN13: 9781539078579
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 25 2016
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.14 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Allegory of the Cave Plato The Allegory of the Cave was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work the Republic to compare the effect of education and the lack of it on our nature. The allegory is probably related to Plato's theory of Forms, according to which the Forms (or Ideas), and not the material world known to us through sensation, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality. Only knowledge of the Forms constitutes real knowledge or what Socrates considers the good. Socrates informs Glaucon that the most excellent people must follow the highest of all studies, which is to behold the Good. Those who have ascended to this highest level, however, must not remain there but must return to the cave and dwell with the prisoners, sharing in their labors and honors. Plato's Phaedo contains similar imagery to that of the allegory of the Cave; a philosopher recognizes that before philosophy, his soul was a veritable prisoner fast bound within his body... and that instead of investigating reality of itself and in itself is compelled to peer through the bars of a prison.

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