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What does Socrates ask? |
What is the good? |
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The Good is |
God |
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What is "Evil" according to Plato? |
The negation of the Good. Good = Sight Evil = Blindness |
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Sun Image Analogy. |
Sun Image
(Visible World) (World of forms/Ideas)
Sun. <==========> The Good.
Makes things Makes other Visible. <=========> ideas known.
Gives life. <===========> Makes other Ideas real. |
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What does the sun analogy say about The Good? |
It creates ideas and makes those ideas possible. Much like how the sun sustains life and illuminates the visible world. |
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What does the divided line say about knowledge? |
Knowledge is attainable through the world of Forms/Ideas. Though Real Knowledge which is wisdom which comes from the Good. |
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What does the Cave analogy say about becomming wise? |
The further out we have traveled out of the cave into actual reality expands our understanding of nature or attaining wisdom. |
