Plato’s Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/plato-s-allegory-of-the-cave-alex-gendler Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of history's most famous thinkers, said life is like being...
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What is reality, knowledge, the meaning of life?Big topics you might tackle figurativelyexplaining existence as a journey down a road or across an ocean,a climb, a war, a book, a thread, a game, a window of opportunity,or an all-too-short-lived flicker of flame.2,400 years ago,one of history's famous thinkers said life is like being chained up in a cave,forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall.Pretty cheery, right?That's actually what Plato suggested in his Allegory of the Cave,found in Book VII of "The Republic,"in which the Greek philosopher envisioned the ideal societyby examining concepts like justice, truth and beauty.In the allegory, a group of prisoners have been confined in a cavern since birth,with no knowledge of ...
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What is reality, knowledge, the meaning of life?Big topics you might tackle figurativelyexplaining existence as a journey down a road or across an ocean,a climb, a war, a book, a thread, a game, a window of opportunity,or an all-too-short-lived flicker of flame.2,400 years ago,one of history's famous thinkers said life is like being chained up in a cave,forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall.Pretty cheery, right?That's actually what Plato suggested in his Allegory of the Cave,found in Book VII of "The Republic,"in which the Greek philosopher envisioned the ideal societyby examining concepts like justice, truth and beauty.In the allegory, a group of prisoners have been confined in a cavern since birth,with no knowledge of ...
