RE: Plato's Allegory of the Cave
September 18, 2012 at 5:21 pm
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2012 at 5:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 18, 2012 at 5:15 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Coming out of the cave, can be said coming out of what you think you are due to false perception of society, to what you really are.
Something that scares me, is how we look at the people of the past, and their morality, and we look at them negatively.
When we come out and see the sun, how will see ourselves?
Perhaps it's a grace from God that we are designed so we will be not see it, till we ourselves evolve out of the cave so we would have no shame.
Well, we also see people of the past as noble, heroic, and good. It doesn't seem too presumptuous to suggest that we may see our selves (as relics of the past) with the same mix of positive and negative value judgements...whatever they may one day be.
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