POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cosmopolitanism, Start The Week
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Truth is nothing but shadows of the artifacts (?) Need time to adjust from the life within the cave to the life above. The prisoners in the cave are like us : lack an enlightened understanding of things that are worth understanding. We wrongly imagine we see glimpses of truth and. We keep these other people"s ideas far into our adult lives. We live through these conventions without thinking about it. The danger is to live forever as conformists. Want to return to old certainties because seeing the light is painful. When they first see the light, they are afraid of the new and believe the old certainties are reality. our minds. better. The puppeteers are also in the cave. They believe producing conventions are the most important goals in life. In fact it can be very satisfying to instruct others about convention. It is difficult to persuade and compel these prisoners past puppeteers.
