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| colspan="3" style="background: #009e49; text-align: center; -moz-border-radius:6px" | '''''The following segment includes the final paragraphs of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and is my best explanation as to why the Philosophe Knights exist. | | colspan="3" style="background: #009e49; text-align: center; -moz-border-radius:6px" | '''''The following segment includes the final paragraphs of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and is my best explanation as to why the Philosophe Knights exist. | ||
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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den. | |||
That, he said, is a very just distinction. | That, he said, is a very just distinction. | ||
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They undoubtedly say this, he replied. | They undoubtedly say this, he replied. | ||
Whereas our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good. | Whereas our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good. | ||
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