ipl-logo

Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

1427 Words6 Pages

For the semester, we have discussed all different philosophers. They suggest direction of life and mindset in different environment and era. In the east side of the world, ancient china was very disorder for the war and there was man who insist that human’s life should be part of mother nature. He thought that universe and nature is too big to understand and human beings are very trivial thing compare to nature. Also human beings are part of nature, so they contain nature character in their instinct. He argued that law and ethos that made by human cause all the social problems. On the first page of “Tao Te Ching”, he said “The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be names is not the eternal name”. Thus, he insists something that made by human can not be truth and only nature can give the answer. In contrast, in ancient west, Platon believed Idea that contains origin of every objects and principle of universe. He made metaphor that called “Allegory of the cave” to explain his idea. People live in the cave, but they could not see the their back and could not move. Lights is behind them and they only can see the shadows that comes from the back side. People who live in cave beloved shadow is real and do not know about the truth. Likewise, we are …show more content…

For wolfs, keeping each other is wisdom. For female mantis, eating male mantis is wisdom. Wisdom is seeking the maximum profit in their situation. Then, wisdom is stilling money from other people’s pocket? No, it is not. Because our complex society would not let you go and as a result you will lose more money than money that you still from the bank. It means, wisdom is maximum profit of your whole life. It does not mean moment of happiness of profit, so it is like karma. However, in here karma doesn’t mean doing morally good thing or bad thing. Thus, people who got their profit from morally evil thing have wealthy life, if they are not against social law and

Open Document