ok, can somebody explain me the implications of platos cave

[zerozerozero]

i have no idea what this is supposed to mean

 

[Animecel2D]

the OG touch grass meme

 

[wastedcodeine]

Use a search engine nigga

 

[Mecoja]

Things are not what they seem if you stay in your mom's basement. Basically me.

 

[Skelly]

Its an allegory for how all enlightened people (the people who left the cave) will be shunned by their peers

The cave and it's inhabitants are humans before philosophy, the sun is the light of reason, and the people who go outside and return to tell their people and get shunned are philosophers

 

[Skelly]

For context the story was written by plato and his good friend and mentor socrates was recently put to death for "corrupting the youth"

The moral is that you cant just blindly go around telling people that everything they know is a lie and you are right, because you'll just get alienated and beheaded for wrongthink. The solution is a widespread, carefully administered philosophic education, which he dubbed "The Socratic Method"

Socratic method - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Sewer Sloth]

For context the story was written by plato and his good friend and mentor socrates was recently put to death for "corrupting the youth"

The moral is that you cant just blindly go around telling people that everything they know is a lie and you are right, because you'll just get alienated and beheaded for wrongthink. The solution is a widespread, carefully administered philosophic education, which he dubbed "The Socratic Method"

Socratic method - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Philosopher.Belgrade

 

[MRHK_57]

It's hard for humans to abandon his established ideas and notions about anything.