• Question on Plato's cave analogy
    Judaism + Plato = Christianity
  • Question on Plato's cave analogy
    If the world inside the cave represents normal everyday life, then the world outside the cave must be (according to Plato's philosophy), the world of ideal forms. Do you agree?

    My trouble with the analogy lies not in the analogy itself. It is in the presumption which makes the analogy useful, namely the existence of a world behind the world.
  • Question on Plato's cave analogy
    Very thorough and very modest. I need to think about it. My first impressions are:

    Only an analogy? If the interpretation can be reversed, we got work to do.

    The sensation is first, the analysis comes after. The analysis never fully grasps the sensation. Hence the cave reversion.

    I don't see any reason for shadows. Bigness and smallness only appear in comparison.

    Modern-day philosophy probably beats the crap out of all this classical stuff, and I would like to hear about it.
  • Question on Plato's cave analogy
    Yes, calling it Utopia. The world outside the cave certainly cannot be Plato's world of forms/ideals