Allegory of the Cave
In the Allegory of the Cave, Socrates suggests that, without philosophical education, we are all like the prisoners in the cave. What are your thoughts on this? How is philosophy supposed to be liberating? Do you think Socrates is right to be so pessimistic about life without philosophy?I believe he saying if we don't push past what we are familiar with, it's as if we are in a cave. Accepting what we are told and what we are shown. He says we have to get past that familiar and comfortable parts of are minds in order to learn. In life we should deeper in to everything instead accepting things at face value which could possibly be a lie. Philosophy teaches us to go beyond what we know and to think deeper to explore the uncomfortable and the unfamiliar. It helps us learn who we are at the root. I believe he was right to be so pessimistic about life without philosophy because without philosophy and the gadfly of life no telling where we would be. Without people who made America and the world think more and not accept what we are told.
posted by Esther Dee @ 4:02 PM
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