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LZH__In the chapter six,Socrates take “captain “for example to express it’s hard to be worldly wise and make himself safe for philosophers.As the saying goes “Truth is in the hands of few.”With we growing up , we can get a lot of knowledge but we will lose our ability of thinking. I think in the modern society most of us become more and more narrow. We just accept one side of the world and forget the other sides. So I think it’s due to the great power of the public’s thoughts and just few people can be regarded as the philosophers.
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In book VII, Socrates(Plato) depicted the famous allegory of the cave and stated that everyone has the potential to lead a good life and to discover truth while the problem is that they are not educated in a correct way.
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I doubt the point that what the man discovers in the outside world should be considered to be true and I disagree with the wording “truer” (515d). I think the crisis is not about what is “truer”. Instead, it is about the actual being of truth. What if the man then discovers he’s only a vision created by the brain in the vet? The problem will not be finding a truer world but only to except the annihilation of truth since we may not attribute nothingness to the so called truth. To avoid the possibility of this tragedy, I suppose we should even discard the notion of truth.
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This is a brief summary of my thought on the highlight paragraphs.
In book VI, Socrates(Plato) first discussed the difference between good itself and the methodologies of goodness i.e. the “knowledge and truth’’ (508e) by constructing the metaphor of the eyesight and the sunlight, he then deviates from the current discussion to the depiction of the segmented soul, which is unequally divided into four parts: The first two parts incorporates the notions of “image” and “likeness” (510a). Image, if I got it right?, represents the very basic forms (shapes) which is universal e.g. the shape of the sun. Likeness then represents the icons that are not eternal (this is how I tried to interpret his example of animals and growing things), but may still denote to the same being. The other two parts then represents the process ending with the hypothesis and the one beginning with the hypothesis (510c). If I am on the right track, the difference between these two is pretty much similar (if not the same?) with that between the method of induction and the method of deduction. Still, I’m very interested in the remarks of Glaucon on art: art is something that begins with a hypothesis (511c).
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