Plato's Republic

ahh, the cave! i had a teacher tell us that story, when we were talking about watching "the matrix." fascinating.

i haven't read republic, though. i tried, a few years ago, but my poor wee mind hadn't developed enough yet. considering i'm doing better with other writings of plato lately, i think i'll give it another go, after which i would totally talk about it.

I read it uh.... sixteen years ago. I better dig it out and read it again, my mind is like an attic with lots of nooks and crannies to lose things in.

I tried reading it a long time ago when it was part of a collection of old books given to me. I didn't like the first few pages and never completed it. War & Peace was another in the box. And the bloody Bronte Sisters. :-(

I have a book by Plato called "Symposium and Phaedrus". I don't know if that's what you're refering to or not. I haven't read it yet though, but I'm rather interested and can't wait :)

Has anybody else read that book?

Is that the story about the prisoners who learn to judge life by the shadows that are casy by an unseen and unknown light? And then one of them escapes, goes and see's what the light is and comes back to tell his old prisoners that it's a light and they have been judging life wrongly..but they don't believe him?

Interesting thoughts there Ayzu. I wonder though if you could name someone whom you believe is or was in full posession of the truth?

Funny thing about truth, is that everyone has their own version of it. Even a simple belief in something like the fact my fingers can touch this keyboard and type, which I'm assuming all of you believe is possible, can have in the minds of everyone in here, varied theories explaning how it can happen, though the end faith, that we can all type, is the same.

So faith in shadows and light, like the shadows and lights caused by a flickering candle, are not static, but mutable...even in apparently solid issues....no pun intended....well maybe a little.

Ayzu, yeah give me names.

And who can say what the fish think of the castle the aquarium of the little people inside the castle?...we are not fish, or if we are we are no longer, by elevating ourselves out of the castle, capable of understanding the point of view of one who does not understand.

If you can understand that, then maybe you don't belong in the castle...I prefer the outdoors too.

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