Week 4 Platos Metaphysics

PLATO PLATO (427-347 B.C.): the founder of the first university, the Academy

“ The school in Athens”, (Raphael Sanzio)

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The Allegory of the Cave Prisoners are chained to face the wall of the cave. They see only the shadows on the wall.

The prisoners hear the echoes of voices and see the shadows of the artifacts, and they mistake these echoes and shadows for reality.

One prisoner is unchained, turned around, and force to look at the true source of the shadows.

The prisoner is getting out of the cave, facing the real world.

Finally, he is able to see the sun (the allegory of enlightenment).

Got beaten up by his angry friends. Republic Book VII, Section 19

The Analogy of the Sun Sight Knowledge The Sun Goodness Light Truth allows the eyes to see allows the mind to know

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