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The Importance Of Funes In The Republic

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Funes is a young man who had been thrown by a horse when he was a child, and then he becomes handicapped. The life for him was like a dream because “he lost consciousness” (p.114). This is similar to Plato’s idea in The Republic. One of the metaphors he uses is to compare eye with sight. He states that having eyes doesn’t mean seeing things. Sun makes things possible. It is like the source of illumination and leads people to the good. Therefore, eyes are only seeing something when they look at things like Sun. However, when they look at the dark side, they are “dimmed and appear nearly blind as though pure sight were not in them” (The Republic, 188-d). So in the story, Funes believes that he is not actually living in this world. His existence
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