One of those philosophers is Plato. ... He was taught by Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers according to Plato. ... Plato is know for his theory of the Cave, the platonic doctrine of forms and the Divided line (Sullivan 36). ... According to Plato the rational soul controls emotions. ... Aristotle agreed with Plato that emotions are controlled by the rational soul. ...
Plato was, as we know, both pupil of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. ... The Republic is about Plato's ideal form of a republic. ... The Allegory of the Cave, for example, is a metaphor for the common man in everyday life, and how the philosopher dares to think independently. ... Plato opened his school, Akademia, in Athens around 387 B.C.E. ... The war demolished the Academy that plato founded. ...
Plato presents the Divided Line as an outline for his theory of knowledge. ... Imagine prisoners living in a cave. They have been chained facing the rear wall of the cave since childhood. ... Behind the prisoners on a higher level of the cave floor a fire burns. ... The Allegory of the Cave is an education process for the prisoner. ...
To reference Plato's allegory of the cave, the escapee has a much greater viewpoint than the slaves. This expanded view is a more accurate viewpoint and allows the escapee to better interpret the shadows of the cave (Schiller 200). ... Using the allegory of the cave again, "The cave dwellers abhor the light" (Schiller 198). This means that we are reluctant to leave our cave and look into the light. ...
Socrates passed his knowledge onto Plato, who opened an Academy for philosophy and was responsible for teaching the great philosopher Aristotle. All three of these men are accountable for many of the philosophies that are still held today, such as Plato's Cave Theory, which shows how ignorance can control oneself for the worse. Plato's philosophy of the Divided Line was groundbreaking and led to such theories as Aristotle's philosophy of form and matter, which attempts to explain the reasoning of why things are what they are, for example, why a chair is called a chair and what...
The book is actually an in-depth recording of a philosophy contest between Plato's teacher Socrates and several other great philosophers. ... Also, Socrates claims that only the philosopher has traveled beyond the "cave" of worldly desires and temptations to discover what justice really is. ...
