A Re-interpretation Of Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

Nankai University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) 3:97-102 (2006)
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Abstract

To Plato's philosophy of the people on the background to compare the academic community for the "Yu-hole" in the description of the various details of the different symbolic interpretation, they can find the existence of bias. For the "hole metaphor," depicted in the cave "internal" and "external", that is, on the "inside" and "hole" of the scene is set, it should be understood as it is owned by the person's "reality" and "ideal" the metaphor of two worlds. In the "hole metaphor", he built a real world corresponds to another world - the ideal world, and as the highest purpose of human pursuit: and his philosophy is explained how these two worlds is What kind of relationship philosophy. Taking Plato's philosophical discussions on man as a background, this paper compares varied interpretations of the symbolic detailed descriptions in Plato's allegory of the cave. It claims that the "inside" and the "outside" described in the allegory should be understood as the "real "and" idea "worlds owed by man. In the allegory, man constructed an ideal-real world in contrast of his reality, and took it as his ultimate purpose. Philosophy of man, therefore, is the very philosophy explaining the relationship between the two worlds

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