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From Darkness to Light: Getting Out of Plato's Cave and Becoming Conscious

From Darkness to Light: Getting Out of Plato's Cave and Becoming Conscious

Yousef, Boris
Bizzi, Nicola

Paperback

Self-Help

ISBN13: 9798248342556
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.15 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Socrates, Plato's master, taught his disciple the very art of Maieutics, which Plato later knew how to use to best effect in his philosophical dialogues. Few people nowadays tend to remember that maieutiké in ancient Greek literally means midwifery. Indeed, this method, in Socrates' intentions, was intended to embody an action similar to that of the midwife. That's why he did not pretend to teach anything, let alone put truths into people's minds. He meant, if anything, to lead people to bring forth truths out of their minds. He did not launch redemptive programs and did not pretend to drag along hordes of followers, for he was aware that Knowledge can only emerge from deep within ourselves, from the recesses of our soul. Maieutics, through dialogue and confrontation, simply directs the interlocutor's thinking until they extrapolate truth from within themselves, giving birth to it, indeed. This, as the great Parmenides taught us, can be possible by activating nóos, intuition, which is the true magic word with which we should all equip ourselves.

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