Plato 's cave

Narrator: Orson Welles,
Animator: Dick Oden,
Music: Larry Wolff
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The Allegory of the Cave, also commonly known as Myth of the Cave, Metaphor of the Cave or the Parable of the Cave, is an allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to illustrate "our nature in its education and want of education". The allegory of the cave is written as a fictional dialogue between Plato's teacher Socrates and Plato's brother Glaucon, at the beginning of Book VII.
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Plato (428/427 BC 348/347 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy. Plato was originally a student of Socrates, and was as much influenced by his thinking as by what he saw as his teacher's unjust death.
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[nyappynoodle]

there's no absolute truth...

[sunamori6765]

Almost agree with you AND agree with evepreversespeaking...

Imo, it describes the PATH to Abs.Truth.

But then... couldn't it be that AT while existing, it would reside in the infinite, therefore never being reacheable.

Infinite and Absolute Truth seem to have the paradoxical property of being both concrete and abstract. Just a thought.

[LotsofLights]

@nyappynoodle Is that absolute?

[itwasryan]

Watched this in school today. My mind was blown and my pants were filled.

[mdtsendon]

Cool narration & music. :-)

[JesusMakeUpMyDyinBed]

@nyappynoodle Is that an absolute statement? If so would you consider it absolutely true?

[nyappynoodle]

@cfrancisco74 Explaining this fact using the impossibilities is not what I asked, I want you to try to explain me why it equals 2, and that is the hard part.

[cfrancisco74]

@nyappynoodle Bcoz it will NEVER equal 3, 4, or anything else. Try it.

[nyappynoodle]

@cfrancisco74 Yes, it is undeniable, but if I ask you to explain why is that so, you can't do it. Try it.

[nyappynoodle]

Is illusion such a bad thing as people say? Were those people in the cave happy without knowing the life outside the cave? What if the life outside is crap?

How do we know that the life outside isn't a projection of something bigger?

How do we know if we don't live only in a 'bigger' cave?

Is it really important to know what we are missing?

so many questions...