HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Acculturation, Acheron, Cebes
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In fact, the whole myth of the cave is structured as an analogy: reality : social illusion :: knowledge: opinion. How does he fix the situation: people are being judged with their clothes on and while they are alive, remedy is that they should be judged after death and without a body. If the afterlife was really like this, more people would focus on philosophizing instead of gaining power. (nb the premise and consequence) Plato"s myths: the other world (phaedo: the phaedo is set in the prison cell of socrates, where he awaits execution, and has a final philosophical conversation. His interlocutors are mostly simmias and cebes: socrates is untroubled by his impending death. 41-42: the soul takes a journey through the afterlife, and where you end up is determined by the paths you take on this journey, consequence 1: 48-49: premise 2, consequence 2, the earth is larger and different than we think. (compare this to the cave, pp.
