In class, we talked about the cave story and the divided line.
The sun was pictured as the bad guy, casting shadows that we saw as reality, but wasn't even really there. We're suppose to turn our back on the sun and do good. But no one would say what good is, so how are we suppose to know what is good? They did say something about the little stick figure guy from the cave, though.
Okay, so, little stick figure guy comes up out of the cave, into the sun. His eyes start to hurt and he realizes everything he has known to be real life was a lie.
So he's faced with the decision, stay up here or go back down because that's what is good.
Obviously, he is to go back down because it's ethical.
Does that mean that is what good is? Making the ethical decision?
I'm excited to hear more today.
I commented on Rachel's.
I wasn't in class Tuesday so this confuses my slightly. You're telling me that the sun is bad? You are saying that what we trust every day to help us wake up and keep us from freezing to death is bad? Moreso than that you're saying that it's not even real? How would that be physically possible. Sounds almost like Socrates has a few loose screws.
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