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Someone explain Plato's Allegory of The Cave in layman terms.

I've re-read it a few times over and I get the message of the cave. But the portion where he talks about the "good" and the visible and intelligible realms.

>> No.4484630

Just go and watch The Matrix, it's the same thing.

>> No.4484677

For Plato, The Good is the one true Form, the highest Form, the Form from which all other things derive their meaning and existence. The Good cannot be perceived with the eyes, only with the intellect through reason and dialectic, because The Good is beyond the boundaries of time and space.

In the Allegory of the Cave, the sun is the stand-in for The Good, because the sun illuminates the true world beyond the realm of shadows, just as The Good brings to light all truths and all goodnesses in the mind. And just as coming out of the cave into the sun is blinding, so the comprehension of The Good for the first time is overwhelming, because The Good is the foundation of all being and all reality. But in the end, The Good, like the sun in the allegory, is the true light.

Hope this helps.

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>> No.4484774

>>4484630
nice

>> No.4484781

>>4484677
How does this contrast with the Gnostic emphases on the highest Good and the Neo-Platonic emphasis on the highest Truth?

>> No.4484803

>>4484781
It doesn't you just remove one o from good.

>> No.4484834

>>4484803
I can see that with the Gnostics and the all Good or highest Good, but I thought with the neo-platonics the highest form was the persisting state of absolute truth, is this not at least subtly different than the Good?