Compare And Contrast Plato's Sun Line And Cave

Stephanie Torres

December 5, 2014

Plato’s sun, line and cave The universals in Plato’s sun, line and cave are being, truth, knowledge and intelligible. He uses the sun as the being, or the form of good, the light as the truth, the sight as the knowledge and the visibility as the intelligible. The form of the Good, in terms of Plato’s metaphysics is the most important. Plato is unable to tell us exactly what the Form of The Good is, but he does tell us that it is the foundation of intelligibility and of our capability to know. Also that it is accountable for bringing all of the other Forms into existence. Metaphysics (reality) and epistemology (knowledge) run in tandem to each other. There is only one world but things that are of varying degrees of reality populate it. Plato didn’t look at it as black and white; he looked at it as degrees and

There are features that stay the same in every way it’s told. Someone is living an ordinary life, then they receive a calling, whether that’s someone they meet or an experience they have. This makes them realize there’s something special they have to do, but part of the problem is they don’t fully know what it is. At first they refuse, but the calling becomes too strong and they begin their journey. This journey includes puzzles, difficulties, foes they must overcome by dealing with their own shortcomings. This can be perceived as their character growing and eventually they reach their goal, everything becomes clear to them and they finally see who they really are. Then they also realize they must return to their point of origin to share this experience with everyone they know. I can apply this to my own life in that; college was my calling because I wasn’t satisfied with working a job just to get paid. I wanted to have a career in something I loved doing. I’ve gone through and continue to go through many difficulties on my