The Allegory of the Cave, the Ending of the Republic, and the Stages of Moral Enlightenment
| Autor: | Paul K. Hosle |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Linguistics and Language
History Literature and Literary Theory Philosophy media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Enlightenment 06 humanities and the arts Ancient history 0603 philosophy ethics and religion The Republic Language and Linguistics 0506 political science 060302 philosophy 050602 political science & public administration Classics Allegory of the Cave Myth of Er media_common |
| Zdroj: | Philologus. 164:66-82 |
| ISSN: | 2196-7008 0031-7985 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/phil-2020-0103 |
| Popis: | This essay aims to shed new light on the stages of moral enlightenment in the Allegory of the Cave, of which there are three. I focus on the two stages within the cave, represented by eikasia and pistis, and provide a phenomenological description of these two mental states. The second part of the essay argues that there is a structural parallelism between the Allegory of the Cave and the ending of the Republic. The parallelism can be convincingly demonstrated by a purely formal analysis, but additionally it complements and reinforces the original interpretation of the Cave, insofar as the ending of the Republic also mirrors, on the level of content, the previously adduced stages of moral enlightenment. |
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