Jillian Kurzmann's Blog 3/3/18

Jillian Kurzmann
3/3/18
Honors Western Civilization

Today in class, we prayed for a showing in California. We also watched a video on Plato's Allegory.

  • Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
  • Allegory- is a story, poem, or picture that can contain a hidden meaning, or a moral, or a political lesson.
  • Life is like being chained up in a cave.
  • Plato's Republic.
  • Plato didn't like democracy.
  • Only light is the fire in the Allegory.
  • People identify things they see but, don't actually see it.
  • A prisoner is freed and he sees everything for the first time.
  • The sun hurts his eyes and the environment is disoriented.
  • He thought the shadows were more precise.
  • He can finally look at everything and he can see the sun, whose light is the ultimate source of everything he has seen.
  • The other prisoners don't like that the man says that everything they have seen is a lie and they resist.
  • Most people aren't just comfortable in their ignorance but, hostile to anyone who points it out.
  • Plato says no to Athenian democracy and yes to philosopher kings.
  • Things in the physical world are flawed reflections of ideal forms.
  • For theologians, the ideal forms exist in the mind of a creator.
  • People are more advanced than other species. 

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