Plato's Cave Only
Date Submitted: 07/25/2004 12:21:58
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 6 pages (1695 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 6 pages (1695 words)
ESSAY: Topic 1
In Book VII of Plato's, "Republic", Socrates attempts to show his belief of how people can come to know "justice", and how such knowledge can be used to lift the level of justice within the state.
The Republic comprises ideas and hypothetical arguments that are quite abstract and removed from the commonplace thought of everyday people. Plato, and indeed his mentor Socrates, are very intelligent men in that their intellect and imagination can …
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…own journey out of the cave towards the ultimate realization of truth and justice. This may be the true reason for the cave analogy, and even perhaps "The Republic" itself.
Footnotes
1. Socrates to Glaucon,
quoted in Plato, The Republic,
translated by Allan Bloom, United States of America, 1968,
p.517 c.
2. Socrates to Glaucon
Plato, p.520 c.
3. Socrates to Glaucon
Plato, p.519 e.
4. Socrates to Glaucon
Plato, p.516 d.
Books:
Plato, The Republic,
Translated by Allan Bloom, 1968.
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