PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Episteme, Middle Ages, Dialectic
10 Sep 2016
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It gives visibility to objects and the power of seeing to the eye b. iv. It gives intelligibility to objects of thought and the power of knowing to the mind. c. iv. The horizontal line that splits the table in half symbolizes the metaphysical division: above the line is the real, below the line is the un-real. The vertical line that splits the table in half symbolizes the epistemological division: on the right is (are) the world(s), on the left our representation(s) of it (them) Plato talks about the world and the knowledge about the world. Plato"s allegory of the cave certain things that are unclear. The cave: the prisoner symbolizes the human soul, cave symbolizes our world, the world of senses, constant flux decay and imperfection. In this world we see only shadows of the real things, appearance which are thrown from the fire in the cave. Everybody is trapped in the cave at first.
