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Plato: Allegory of The Cave: Except From The Republic
Plato: Allegory of The Cave: Except From The Republic
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Plato and Socrates
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• Now, suppose one of the prisoners is unshackled and led
away, up out of the cave and into the world outside.
• The prisoner will probably object and when outside, will be
blinded by the light.
• But in time the released prisoner will realize that it is the
world outside that is real and the world in the cave only
one of illusion.
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• If then the prisoner is led back down into the cave and placed
in his original position, the other prisoners would mock him if
he told them of the world outside and think him a fool. And
they would object to anyone else being led away.
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Epistemology = true
knowledge.
True knowledge
cannot come from our
senses because we
can’t trust our senses.
tells us is reality.
Plato’s FORMS
Plato believed in a
demiurge (creator
God).
Plato is negative
about the body.
The Duty of the Philosopher