Allegory of the cave:
- See the shadow, but not the reflection of the real world
- Escape the prisoner → convince them to go out and see what the real world is
- Talking about shadow (escape to identify real world now instead of the shadow)
Republic pp. 124-125
State of Ignorance?
State of being in the cave = Ignorance
eyesight ⇒ capacity for learning
Sun = knowledge, intelligible world
shadow → sensible world
taints these visions are unwilling to decent to human affair for the ⇒ which desire for allegory (don’t want to go down to the cape)
Fear of the unknown?
Journey to Enlightenment?
Enlightenment as a duty?
Why most of them don’t want to escape at the beginning? Why only one of them to escape? → fear of the unknown?
The form?
See also: Symposium Ladders’ of beauty
