Plato’s Myth of the Cave
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In this video I set forth the meaning of Plato's Cave and why this analogy still speaks to us today or - more to the point - how the Cave is an allegory for our age. The question really is: is there an exit from the Cave and what would it look like?
How come that we live in a world of screens and shadows today, of mere appearances that nevertheless structure our everyday?
Why is it that the Cave Analogy, a 2500 year old story, reveals more about our age than perhaps any other story? How do we have to respond to the cave?
Copyright: Johannes Achill Niederhauser
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This is a beautiful explanation. However, I don’t think Plato missed the original concealments. When I first read the Allegory of the Cave, I immediately connected it to Socrates after he realized the more he that he learned, the less he actually knew. I used The Cave as the underlying theme for my first novel. I know it has been done numerous times, but I took it in a metaphysical direction. After my protagonist leaves an oppressive environment, he eventually learns that even though he is free, he would always be questioning what he thinks he knows. In reality, I think it’s the most liberating way of living life. But, I can understand why most people choose to fixate on their beliefs. It feels safer. That’s the trap that you realize only after you leave the cave, process, return, process again and then realize knowledge is a never ending quest. Then again, I might be wrong about all of this. 😂
Great video. This video should be accompanied with another video on the "nothing" since you allude to it several times...or maybe you're just laying bread crumbs...
byaringan13 you are quite right. It’s impossible to speak of being without speaking of the nothing. Or of appearance without speaking of disappearance. And precisely for that reason leaving traces is often the most we can say
@@JohannesNiederhauser I agree as well. Btw, did you get my email from earlier today?
you will find that there are likely different perspectives on the basic idea of what is “True” and what is not. What is meant when something is said to be true? What is your position on this in plato's cave and what sources/ text supports your position?!