Plato's "The Cave" - Understanding Our Narrow Minds

"Platonism" is a term coined by scholars to refer to the intellectual consequences of denying, as Socrates often does, the reality of the material world. In several dialogues, most notably the Republic, Socrates inverts the common man's intuition about what is knowable and what is real. While most people take the objects of their senses to be real if anything is, Socrates is contemptuous of people who think that something has to be graspable in the hands to be real. In the Theaetetus, he says such people are "eu a-mousoi", an expression that means literally, "happily without the muses" (Theaetetus 156a). In other words, such people live without the divine inspiration that gives him, and people like him, access to higher insights about reality.

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[chuckprojquality1]

Wholy shit, Plato, you just fucking blew my mind. 2500 years in the past. wow. sorry for language i dont know how else to explain that.

[jakoxn]

@chuckprojquality1 I know what you meen, mate

[TheEmpireOfOne]

Once you leave the cave, you can never return.

[malkooth]

@mikewhernandez LULZ. Never get off the boat. 

[jmm1233]

Whao , it like an ancient telling of THX1138 or even 1984

[mikewhernandez]

OUTSIDE IS SPOOKY! I want back inside the cave! Don't ever leave! Don't even think about it...

[iSeenthatB4]

Very true Theempireofone, For returning may mean utter death. Thank you for posting up

[DERAJ13]

CAVES ARE SPOOKY! I want out!! if you were to return to the cave you may find everything you knew and loved became unimportant too you. to endure that reality could place a heavy cloak of sadness upon your being, the loss of what you were. would you carry that in the light? could it drive you mad?

would thoes who could let go and accept loss and darkness as much apart of the truth as the light its self find ballance and understanding in what is "GOD" OR "SOURCE"