洞穴与善--读柏拉图《理想国》之洞穴隐喻（Caves and good -- a reading of cave metaphors in Platons the Republic）.docVIP

洞穴与善--读柏拉图《理想国》之洞穴隐喻（Caves and good -- a reading of cave metaphors in Platons the Republic） The meaning of cave metaphor In Utopia seventh volumes, Socrates tells a story to Glaucon: cave metaphor. A story of a broken man going out of the cave, seeing the sun and coming back to the cave. The chains that bind the body within the cave symbolize the opinions that people have gained through experience, and some seem to be the right ones. The formation of these opinions is often due to restrictions on the environment or the restriction of the senses. In a persons growth process, the person receives the image of the external things by the sense organ, and then takes these images as the real existence. Therefore, peoples ideas tend to have certain prejudices, which are difficult to be discovered by individuals in certain circumstances, so some ideas remain stable in people. If people are used to living in their normal ways throughout their lives, they will always think that what they see is right. The process of getting out of the cave, as a symbol of the ascent of man and soul. From this person see the light projected on the walls of the image, is free, the first is dazzling, then saw the puppet real; to go out, he saw the sun projected images, then see the sun itself. A cave is a road, leading to the real road. The four scenes that people see on this road correspond to the division of the world in the line of lines: the images and things that can sense the world, the mathematical objects and ideas of the world. The sun is the most true, the sun represents the good of the world, and the shadow of the sun corresponds to the idea that man is good in the world. The book holds that the objects of knowledge derive their knowable from good, and their own existence and reality from good, although the mountain itself is not real, but in position and ability is higher than the real thing. In the process of studying things, it is necessary to establish hypotheses, and that the soul