PHIL 1305 Lecture 2: Allegory of the Cave: Plato
25 Sep 2016
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Attempt to explain why humans are prone to engage in serious wrongdoing. Think about how we should respond to wrongdoing. Wrote about the nature of reality, knowledge, goodness, beauty, and justice. In the republic plato makes socrates out as a hero in the beginning but in the end he doesn"t seem as smart. Plato"s theory of justice in the individual and in the polis (the city) Plato thinks only the just individual can truly be happy. Socrates and glaucon are discussing the human condition. Interested in what we are like in natural conditions. Socrates" big point in this section is that without a certain kind of moral education, we are ignorant of the good. This suggests that for socrates, the reason we do wrong is due to our untutored ignorance of what"s really good. The prisoners are able to see shadows and projections of images. They have varying degrees of skills at determining what the shadows appear to be.
