The Political Significance of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
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| contents | The Political Significance of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave Gabriel Zamosc Filosofía cave Plato culture allegory politics The article argues that Plato's cave is fundamentally a political and not an epistemological allegory, and that only if we see it thus can we understand its relation to the images of the sun and the line. On the basis of textual evidence, the article raises questions regarding the main hypotheses grounding the effort to find an epistemological parallel between the cave and the line: that the prisoners represent humanity in general, and that the cave symbolizes the visible world of everyday experience, while the world outside the cave represents the realm of ideas. The suspension of these assumptions makes possible a reading that highlights the cultural and political issues at stake in this famous allegory. 2017 artículo científico 0120-0062 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=80955136011 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/809/80955136011/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/809/80955136011/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/809/80955136011/80955136011.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/809/80955136011/movil 10.15446/ideasyvalores.v66n165.55201 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=809 Ideas y Valores application/pdf Universidad Nacional de Colombia Ideas y Valores (Colombia) Num.165 Vol.LXVI |
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| spellingShingle | The Political Significance of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave Gabriel Zamosc Filosofía cave Plato culture allegory politics The Political Significance of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave Gabriel Zamosc Filosofía cave Plato culture allegory politics The article argues that Plato's cave is fundamentally a political and not an epistemological allegory, and that only if we see it thus can we understand its relation to the images of the sun and the line. On the basis of textual evidence, the article raises questions regarding the main hypotheses grounding the effort to find an epistemological parallel between the cave and the line: that the prisoners represent humanity in general, and that the cave symbolizes the visible world of everyday experience, while the world outside the cave represents the realm of ideas. The suspension of these assumptions makes possible a reading that highlights the cultural and political issues at stake in this famous allegory. 2017 artículo científico 0120-0062 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=80955136011 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/809/80955136011/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/809/80955136011/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/809/80955136011/80955136011.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/809/80955136011/movil 10.15446/ideasyvalores.v66n165.55201 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=809 Ideas y Valores application/pdf Universidad Nacional de Colombia Ideas y Valores (Colombia) Num.165 Vol.LXVI |
| title | The Political Significance of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave |
| topic | Filosofía cave Plato culture allegory politics |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=80955136011 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/809/80955136011/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/809/80955136011/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/809/80955136011/80955136011.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/809/80955136011/movil |