Saturday, February 5, 2011
Plato's Republic. Books VI-VII
Hmm, Well to be honest. I have no idea what the reading was about. I mean, I read it twice, and I answered all my questions to the quiz. I read it one last time, and I still didn't get it. I know that it's a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon. It was pretty hard to decipher the reading. I wasn't sure what the shadows meant. Is it that by being stuck in the cave the prisoners didn't know who was human or shadow. And how about the cave. Was it basically, that with knowledge we can learn to overcome certain circumstances, or escape the cave. Am I making any sense? Probably not. I can't wait to go over this in class. It'll certainly help me understand it a bit more.
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From what I understand, the prisoners have never seen a human being in PERSON. So when they do see a human, they will probably look like a monster.
ReplyDeleteHowever the human mind can overcome that idea with reasoning and hence their return to the cave. However until the other prisoners can escape and see what the escapee saw, they will continue to see only shadows of humans, instead of a human's shadow.
If that makes sense?