"After that I continued - compare our nature for their education and their lack of education experience like this:
men in an underground dwelling in a cave, which is open entry, in its entirety in the light. In it are from kids with their legs and necks chained so that should stay there and look only in front of them, because the chains prevent them from turning around the head. Above and beyond l is light a fire that shines behind them, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a wall built from side to side as the screen that the puppeteers stand in front of the public to show, above screen, the puppets.
"I can imagine.
- Imagine now that, on the other side of the wall, passing shadows are all kinds of utensils and figurines of humans and other animals, made of wood and stone of various kinds, and among those who spend some speak and others are silent. Strange comparison
-do, and strangers are those prisoners.
"But they're just like us. Well first, do you think you have seen themselves or each other, other than the shadows cast by the fire in that part of the cave they have against it?
4-course not, if all their life are forced not to move the heads.
- And is not the case with objects that carry the passing of another of the wall?
"Undoubtedly.
"Then, if dialogue between them, do not you think they would understand to be
naming the objects that pass by and they see?
-necessarily.
"And if the detention is counted with an echo from the wall they have against each other, and one of the
passing across the septum to speak, do not you think
believe that what they hear comes from the shadow passing in front of them?
- By Jove, yes!
- And that the real prisoners should not have anything but the shadows of artificial objects transported
?
- it's every need.
- Reviews now the case of a release from his chains and a cure for his ignorance, what if this happen to them naturally:
one of them was released and forced to stand up suddenly and go back neck looking at the light and , to do all this suffering and because of the glare was unable to perceive those things whose shadows he had seen before. What do you think would respond if they were told that what had previously been
trinkets and now on the other hand, is closer to reality, back to real things and looking properly? And if you show
each of the objects passing across the septum and was forced to answer questions about what they are, do not think you would feel in trouble and will consider that the things I saw before were more real than those that show him now?
- Much more real.
- And if you are forced to look towards the light itself, would not you eye ache and try to avoid it
, turning to those things that could sense, considering that they are actually more clear than those that show him ?
- Yes.
- And if the drag force is a steep, steep slope, without
release before reaching sunlight, do not suffer anything and irritate by
be dragged and after coming to light, would have his eyes full of brilliance that would prevent him from seeing one of the objects are now saying that true?
- By the way, at least immediately.
- would need to get used to, to get to see things from above. First look with greater ease the shadows, then the figures of men and other objects reflected in water, then the men and the objects themselves. The following night contemplate what is in the
same sky and the sky, watching the light of the stars and the moon more easily than during the day, the sun and sunlight.
"No doubt.
- Finally, I could feel the sun, not images in the water or in other places that are strange, but contemplate how it is in and of itself, in
its own domain.
-necessarily.
-After which would conclude, with respect to the sun, which is what causes the seasons and the years that governs everything in the visible field that somehow causes the things they had seen.
- It is clear that after all this, would arrive at such conclusions.
- And if you remember your first home, the type of existing knowledge and their time there fellow prisoners, do not think he would be happy
change and the pity?
- BTW.
-respect of the honors and accolades that are taxed each other, and the rewards
who sharper glimpse the shadows of objects passing behind the partition, and the best will remember what had which routinely paraded before and after, and for that of
them were able to guess what would happen, do you think it would be willing to all that and that would envy the most eager of all that and envy to more honest and powerful of those? Or do
not happen as the Achilles of Homer, and "would rather be a farmer who was the servant of a poor man" or bear anything rather than return to their previous way of opinion and that life?
- So I also think that would suffer anything rather than endure this life.
- think now this: if you come down again and take his own seat, would not your eyes dimmed by darkness, the sun suddenly arrive?
- No doubt.
- And if I were to discriminate against those shadows back in fierce competition with those who have kept the chains at all times, and saw dimly until his eyes are rearranged in this state and
accustomed to anything short time, would not be exposed to ridicule because it was said that, having risen to the top, had damaged her eyes, and not even be worth worth trying to go up? And if I tried to untie them and bring them to light, do not you kill, if they could
it in their hands and kill him?
- Sure.
- Well, my dear Glaucon, we have fully implemented this allegory to what has previously been said, comparing the region who is manifested through her eyes with the house-prison, and light the fire that has in it the power of the sun; compare, on the other hand, the rise and contemplation of things above the path of the soul to the intelligible level and not go wrong in what I'm waiting, and what you want to hear. God knows if this is really true
, in any case, what I find is that as far as what is knowable in the end, and with difficulty, it is the Idea of \u200b\u200bGood. Once received, it must be concluded that the cause of all things straight and beautiful,
that has spawned the field visible light and the lord of it, and that is understandable in the context lady and producer of truth and intelligence, and
is necessary to take into view in order to act wisely both in private and in public.
- share your thoughts as far as I can.
- See also if you share this: no wonder that those who have come here not willing to deal with human affairs, but their souls aspire to hang up, which is natural, if the allegory
described is correct here too.
- Very natural.
- Nor is it surprising that, to contemplate the divine things happen to human, behave awkwardly and look ridiculous to see so confused and still not sufficiently accustomed to the surrounding darkness, was forced, in court or elsewhere, to play on shadows of justice or figurines which are no shadows, and argue about it the way it is discussed by
who have never seen justice itself.
- No way it would be strange.
- But if someone has common sense, remember that the eyes can see dimly by two types of shocks: one to move from light to darkness, and another of darkness to light, and considering that this is what happens to the soul, rather than laugh irrationally when
disturbed and unable to look at something, will discuss which of the two cases: if the exit light a life is confused by the lack of habit, or whether, coming from a greater ignorance towards the brightest, is clouded by the blaze. Thus, in one case will compliment what happens and life to access, while the other will have mercy, and if she wants to laugh, his smile will be less absurd if you download the soul that descends from light.
0 comments:
Post a Comment