“Allegory of the Cave” 心存善念2021-12-29 16:35:46

Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave" is a concept devised by the philosopher to ruminate on the nature of belief versus knowledge. The allegory states that there exists prisoners chained together in a cave. Behind the prisoners is a fire, and between the fire and the prisoners are people carrying puppets or other objects. This casts a shadow on the other side of the wall. The prisoners watch these shadows, believing them to be real.

 

Plato posits that one prisoner could become free. He finally sees the fire and realizes the shadows are fake. This prisoner could escape from the cave and discover there is a whole new world outside that they were previously unaware of.

 

This prisoner would believe the outside world is so much more real than that in the cave. He would try to return to free the other prisoners. Upon his return, he is blinded because his eyes are not accustomed to actual sunlight. The chained prisoners would see this blindness and believe they will be harmed if they try to leave the cave.

这是一种愚民办法...

我想柏拉图是说人都是在山洞里

柏拉图的爱情最美!一个大作家

How to avoid being blinded?

我这么英文表达对吗？

美语世界秒变哲学大观，我FOCUS很久在1st&2nd paragraphs, but I could've understoo

哈哈哈，善念的水平太高，我们都在跟他这个百科全书边学英语边学各种知识：）

记得你也是哲学家，可以和他切磋切磋：）

哪还哲学家，我连我自己的生活都看不明白：P

Interesting. so knowledge is power. otherwise will be get fooled

actually his point is knowledge is always partial or flawed

knowledge is what we know/belief is our best guess of the truth

I'd say"try not to be blinded"

avoid gives a sense of passiveness

Point taken！

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多谢班长！