The Allegory of the Cave was written around 380 BCE as part of the collection of passages that make up The Republic.
Plato presents the ignorance and how one's perception of reality can be clouded through the prison that the cave in the story serves.
The cave casts images on to the wall that the prisoners base their percetion of reality from, which the audience knows isn't reality.
However, through the escape of one prisoner, it highlights enlightenment and shift from ignornace to knowledge.
This ultimately leaves the audience questioning whether what they know is based on ignorance or knowledge and entertains the thought of choosing between the two.
Origins
Why Plato? I thought this was a podcast.
With the rise of protests across the country at some of the most prestigous universities in the country,
we wanted to get to the bottom of what was causing it. As it turns out, students have increasing been adopting three great untruths as a result of "coddling" which are not only a detriment
to the community, but also to themselves. An exemplar of the very situation presented in The Allegory of the Cave. The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukainoff and Jonathan Haidt, attributes
the cause of these protests to "coddling" and embracing of three great untruths in the name of "safety", which are: The Untruth of Fragility, The Untruth of Emotional Reasoning, The Untruth of Us Versus Them.
Join us as we unravel and demystify the
inner workings of the mind that lead us to where we are today.
Hosts
Karl Allen
Co-Host
Hello! I'm a current junior at George Ranch High School who's into the arts and engineering. I wanted to do this podcast to uncover and understand why I feel that education has "coddled" me and what detrimental affects this could have.
Andrew Chin
Co-Host
Hi there! I'm a co-host for this podcast and I'm hoping to inform and perhaps change the direction of society from the dark path the Great Untruths present to this country and its youth.
