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Philosophy: The Love of Wisdom | A Guide to Life

Eternalised

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The Myth of the Cave

The Platonic forms serve as the foundation of our judgments on things concerning human life and are therefore first and foremost moral values. The idea that we do not experience reality in the so-called real world but only its dim shadow has haunted philosophy ever since. This is an enlightenment myth of coming into the light through an ascent which the Greeks call anagogy. It is a self-transformative process in which one comes into closer contact with reality revealing what had here to remain concealed. For Plato this is wisdom the fullness of being.

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