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Simon Blackburn on Plato's Cave

Philosophy Bites

CHAPTER

The Assent and the Return of the Philosopher

Philosopher goes out, gets dazzled by the sun, comes back with a message for those people. He sees the lorhe get a transcendental moment of grace and becomes an authority on how to live. The idea that we now see through a glass darkly comes directly from plato. When we turn to christ or to god, we're going to see directly as the philosopher saw the sun. It's proved a very, very potent metaphor for christianity.

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