PHI 1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Great Conversation, Sophist
9 Feb 2017
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The cave is enclosed on all sides. Very little light can get in, not very much. Most of the light comes from the fire. They cant see each other, they can only see the lights. There is a puppet show, shadows that look like the furniture of the world, He says imagine that one of the prisoners could get free how does a. Education requires curiosity (stories, mechanical cat, pictures, reflections in water, homer) This is like in philosophy in greece, when people are no longer content in. The people of eikasia these are the shadows on the wall having the stories of homer, but they are trying to understand the world . They would see the puppets, puppeteers the puppeteers are representing. And some people moving through the stages plato says its quite easy since. What is the difference between someone who stays with homer in eikasia? the artists (the ones telling the stories, casting the shadows)
