Monday, November 19, 2012

"The Cave" Allegory: Lecture Notes

You are the ward of your on prison and you have the key to free yourself.

Learning is remembering
absolute forms-we reconnect and remember the ideas
The world is imperfect
The world of absolute perfect forms is perfect
Cave-place of ignorance
Shackles-limitations, filters,
Shadows- ppl will feed you images and you have to question if they are real
Ignorance is bliss
Preston left the cave came back and he is in the cave with us and now he's telling us that there is much more outside the world

3 phases of truth
It is ridiculed
Violently opposed
Excepted as self evident
Johnson C. (?)

Prisoners are defending the right to stay in the cave. Vision is very narrow in the cave

We don't like to not feel like we know what's going on
We look for pieces of info that reinsure us and makes us comfortable. We make stuff up in our head like patterns out of nothing in order to reassure ourselves

How do cave ppl get free?
They need to want to go out in order to actually leave.
It takes the first few ppl in order to set an example.
His questioning allowed him to break free.
The truth is an uncomfortable process!
What does success have to do with comfort?
You must be uncomfortable in order to be successful--no one would ever achieve anything if we laid on the couch forever
metaphysical- reality is self deceiving and there are different versions of the truth

This is part of what we talked about. My fingers couldn't keep up with all the ideas but I hope this is helpful!

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