jueves, 7 de enero de 2010

The thoughts of plato.


Plato was a Greek philosopher, student of Socrates. their fundamental contribution to Western philosophy was the theory of ideas, which argued that the only truth were ideas about things and not things in themselves. Plato, unlike Socrates, uses scripture. Also suggests that society + literature + order = reallity, and the reality is equal to the truth and the truth equals beauty; Plato said that art is a double fallacy (is a lie of a lie), the art is a recreation of nature because the art is not real, and at the same time not true and not beautiful.

Plato raises other things like "The Allegory of the Cave": describes a cave which inside there are men. These men have been forced to contemplate the shadows that are on the wall of the cave. Not knowing other reality except those shadows, take these as the only reality that exists. Plato uses this image to describe the state in which they are citizens who, having been educated by sophists are only able to see the world through images.

Later, one of the men see something strange in the shadows, and see that the images he see are not authentic and he see that is in a cave,he jumps the wall at her back to see where comes the shadows he saw on the wall.

After jumping the wall, he can see how the shadows were produced by men carrying objects and the fire behind them, after avoiding the bearers of objects whit grat difficulty he begind his uphill toward the exit of the cave. (the climb of the cave is not easy becaus of its slope, which represents knowledge).

The man out of the cave is blinded by the light from outside and will be a while until I can see clearly out of the cave, the man seen in the commitment to return to the cave to help his teammates out of their deception and know the reality. But try to make understand their friends their current situation is not easy, because the majority or not believe or not want to face reality as it is, and try to kill him to shut up.

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