Ep. 110: The Cave
Young Heretics
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The Fire in the Cave
Why is it that people are able to even think their way outside of the cultures that they grow up in? It's because we have this inner vision, right? We hae this access to the good. Even if everybody around me says that christianity is bunk, that god is dead, right? i know what is true,. Righty have this inner sense that leads you up out of the cave. And plato is then saying that the fire in the cave stands in for the physical sun in the physical world. The whole physical world, thewhole material world, for plato, is itself at a kind of lower level of reality than the abstract truths that we discern our
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