Plato's Republic book 7 | The Allegory of the Cave | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Plato's work, The Republic and specifically on his famous Allegory of the Cave set out early in book 7. In this allegory, prisoners are confined within an underground dwelling, and believe that reality is the images and sounds projected in front of them. One of the prisoners is freed of his chains and brought up into the sunlit world above. After habituation, he becomes able to fully use his power of sight to see real things, the heavens, and the sun that illuminates them.
The allegory is a story about what genuine education would be. Plato rejects the notion of education as simply providing information or filling students' heads with knowledge. Instead, education involves rising above a world of material things, which are only shadows or images of the truer realities, the immaterial Forms. Through developing our minds, we become able to grasp these invisible Forms, and the Form of the Good that is the cause of all things.
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@giovannaliviana505 5 лет назад

Yay! More Plato!

@GregoryBSadler 5 лет назад

We'll have a few more on Plato coming, and then I've got to get to Aristotle, Arendt, Cicero and others - I'm shooting material for my Spring classes

@MacGatesStudio 2 года назад

You did so well explaining this, thank you so much.

@GregoryBSadler 2 года назад

You’re welcome

@ammaralado5930 2 года назад

thanks for this very nice presentation, and for emphasizing the importance of teaching the theory of forms in schools. I am not a philosopher , but I happened to write a book about the theory of mind and I mentioned the importance of Plato ' s theory. the name of the book is the social brain, an operator ' manual. Muhammad Al-Ado I never presented it to any philosopher yet. thanks again.

@GregoryBSadler 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@jayantkumar7716 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for this video , helps to understand the concept more efficiently.

@GregoryBSadler 5 месяцев назад

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@albertsnotes 3 года назад

It helps me a lot to understand Book 7 of Plato, the Republic. Thanks!

@GregoryBSadler 3 года назад

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@alyssamiles9042 2 года назад

This was so great, thank you for your help!!!

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@RobertF- 5 лет назад

This made me start to really look into Plato's work. Very interesting. Thanks

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@ambita00 3 года назад

Thanks for the breakdown of Plato's work

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@MrMoarMadness 3 года назад

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@GregoryBSadler 3 года назад

Thanks! Will do

@monicashailamaghirang3810 2 года назад

very useful! thank you very much

@GregoryBSadler 2 года назад

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@_eo227 3 года назад

Soo helpful! Please contnue, thanks👌🙏

@GregoryBSadler 3 года назад

Glad it's helpful for you

@LeeFerikson 5 лет назад

Oh shit this is such a good explanation of this. Damn.

@GregoryBSadler 5 лет назад

Thanks!

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Glad you enjoyed it!

@frroossst4267 2 года назад

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@dutes6668 5 лет назад

Do i understand it correctly if i say it is kinda like the matrix? Neo lives in the cave(matrix). He is not living in reality but in a computer simulated world. Then he comes in contact with Morpheus who gets him out of the matrix and he understands that he has been living in a computer simulated world and now sees reality as it is.

@GregoryBSadler 5 лет назад

It's a bit like the matrix, yes - at the surface level. But, remember what the reality is for Plato. It's not ultimately the material objects, which is as far as the matrix goes

@dutes6668 5 лет назад

Right, because concepts like beauty and justice in the movie are the same inside of the matrix as they are outside of the matrix. In the cave beauty and justice are also projections on the wall. We can kinda see justice, but not real true justice, it is more like looking at a projection of justice. So that is what the prisoners in the cave are looking at, but if they would realise that they where just where looking at shadows they would stop doing it and search for the true source of justice witch is the form. And Plato thinks we can get to see the true form of knowledge by using our reasoning and education, but first we need to realise that we are not looking at the truth and we need to love the truth. That is intresting. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question, i think i understand it better now.

@GregoryBSadler 5 лет назад

@@dutes6668 You're very welcome!

@annekegermers821 Год назад

I think it is like the matrix, when you don't think you are in it, you are. When you know you are in it, you no longer are. The mind is the cave, and will forever be the cave until we see the light that lights up our heart.

@rude_broccoli 5 лет назад

I think there is one more untouched dimension here, namely the connection of the allegory with the concept of hard solipsism. What do you think?

@GregoryBSadler 5 лет назад

No. There's plenty of "untouched dimensions" to the allegory, but that isn't one I'd bother with

@faithoneilll 3 года назад

Who is speaking? Who are the people engaged in dialogue in this text?

@GregoryBSadler 3 года назад

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@brandonludwig5999 2 года назад

Some would say…. Educavetion… am I right?

@GregoryBSadler 2 года назад

You're the first I've seen calling it that

@licandres01 4 года назад

To me it sounds like enlightenment, and like the conception of God as the single being that is the universe and every part of it is that single consciousness experiencing itself, Advaita Vedanta type of stuff.

@GregoryBSadler 4 года назад

Well, it's not, not when you stick with the text. It's something quite different

@licandres01 4 года назад

@@GregoryBSadler I'll read it, thank you, this are great lessons.

@annekegermers821 Год назад

You are right. I don't think that the "professor" understands the text as well as you do. Stick with your interpretation, the "doctor professor" is manipulating the shadows on the wall. All his titles give him authority to do so., And keep you blinded. He thinks he is not in the cave. It's impossible to be in this world and not be in the cave. We all start of in the cave, only the ones that come out recognise it, the rest pretends that it is an "allegory". The ones that come out spot the pretenders. Sorry, professor doctor and the rest....

@marcdavis7271 2 года назад

What’s the purpose of this story

@GregoryBSadler 2 года назад

Read the book and you’ll find it

@uniphcommunity.thewhitetower 10 месяцев назад

Awesome tutorial! If we make the assumption that someone who gets free from his chains never gets out of his own cave without being able to experience the intelligible world, could we also say that he has just moved to his second "mode of knowledge", which is "the formulation of his own opinions and beliefs" (Pistis)? This might also be the case since once he is liberated from his own chains, he discovers the fire (as a real visible object) burning and has his first explanation of the image of the fire cast on the cave wall in the form of a shadow...and all of these thoughts of his are still taking place in the realm of the material world !!

@GregoryBSadler 10 месяцев назад

I wouldn't identify grasping the world above, an analogy to the world of forms, with pistis. Nor would I say "formulation of his own opinions and beliefs" is pistis either, since belief can just be taking on those already there in one's own culture. Plato doesn't say that the prisoner sees the fire, or the puppeteers for that matter, but I suppose we could assume that he does, perhaps on his way back down