POL 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Paideia, Dialectic, Dianoia
7 Mar 2018
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The cave and the cycle of regimes: the cave and the cycle of regimes, the cave is largely just a colorful redescription of the sun and divided line metaphors: i. ii. The fire burning behind the prisoners is the sun , the artifacts and the people passing behind them are things , and the shadows they cast are images ; the inside of the cave is the visible world . Animals that can look in the mirror and distinguish the red dot on their forehead and realize it is themselves have reach pistis, only a select few can. The sun outside the cave is the good , the artifacts and people outside are the. Forms , and the shadows they cast are figures ; the world outside the cave is the intelligible world . (see book vi, fn 39. ) Education system has to be designed, a paideia in a kallipolis: mathematical training, dialectical training.
