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“Earthly Knowledge is but Shadow”

“Earthly Knowledge is but Shadow”. Plato (c427-347 BCE). Plato.

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“Earthly Knowledge is but Shadow”

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  1. “Earthly Knowledge is but Shadow” Plato (c427-347 BCE)

  2. Plato • Born in 427 BC, Plato fled Athens in 399 BC after Socrates was executed, blaming democracy and the Peloponnesian War for his teacher's death. An aristocrat and an elitist, much of what we know about Socrates is based on the writings of Plato, who uses Socrates as a character in many of his writings. Plato (close up) in The School of Athens by Raphael.

  3. Truth (αλήθεια) a-lethe-ia Like Socrates, Plato remained convinced there were such things as absolute goodness, beauty and truth. He believed the soul was eternal, and all knowledge was just a remembering of things the soul knew before birth.

  4. Plato writes things down In 399 BCE, because Socrates had left no writings, Plato took it upon himself to preserve what he had learned from his master. In his dialogue the Apology, he retells Socrates’ defense at his trial, and later he uses Socrates as a character in a series of dialogues.

  5. In the dialogues, it is sometimes hard to untangle which are Socrates’ thoughts and which are the original thoughts of Plato, but a picture emerges of Plato using the methods of his master to explore and explain his own ideas.

  6. Plato’s Allegory of The Cave For Plato the changing world was really just an illusion that hid a higher reality of unchanging ideas. In order to explain this view he wrote the parable of the cave. In it men sit around a fire watching shadows of the outside fall on a cave wall.

  7. The Cave So absorbed are they in watching this reflection that they mistake this shadow play for the real world, unaware that if they only turned around the true world would be revealed to them.

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  9. The Republic: A Book on Political Theory • In other respects Plato differed from Socrates. Where Socrates emphasized individual people examining their lives and actions, Plato broadened his intellectual inquiries to include institutions and social organizations. His book, The Republic, is one of the earliest and most influential books of political theory ever written.

  10. With such a broad range of writings on numerous subjects, it is sometimes said that all western philosophy is 'but a footnote' to Plato. He died in 347 BC School of Athens with Plato and his pupil Aristotle by Raphael

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