Curt Jaimungal Reads Plato's Cave: The Full Story

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Curt Jaimungal

Physics, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0:00.0	Many people reference Plato's cave, but not many people have read it, including myself, so let's rectify that.
0:06.1	Plato first articulated the cave allegory in 380 BCE in a book called The Republic.
0:13.2	Ever since, scads of literature has been published on it, especially in the philosophy of metaphysical and epistemological inquiry.
0:21.6	This is from Socrates.
0:23.4	And now allow me to draw a comparison in order to understand the effects of learning upon our nature.
0:30.7	Imagine that there are people living in a cave deep underground.
0:36.3	The cavern has a mouth that opens to the light above,
0:39.5	and a passage exists from this all the way down to the people.
0:44.0	They have lived here from infancy with their legs and their necks bound in chains.
0:48.4	They can't move.
0:49.9	All they can do is stare directly forward as the chains stop them from turning their heads
0:54.8	around.
0:55.7	Imagine that far above and behind them blazes a great fire.
1:01.5	Between this fire and the captives, a low partition is erected along a path, something
1:06.4	like puppeteers used to conceal themselves during shows.
1:10.4	Plato's brother Glaucon says,
1:12.7	I can picture it.
1:14.4	Socrates says, look, and you'll be able to see
1:17.5	other people carrying around objects back and forth
1:20.4	along the partition.
1:22.0	Things of every kind.
1:23.5	Images of people and animals carved into the stone and wood
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