Do you think Plato's allegory of the Cave is more closely related to modernism or postmodernism and why?
2006-09-14 14:31:23 · 8 answers · asked by question33 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
i wouldnt choose to put that allegory into a catergory. Its just a concept designed to make you question the real existence of what you are seeing.
2006-09-14 14:59:48 · answer #1 · answered by the holy divine one 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turn is back to you
Does modernism or postmodernism necessitate the existence of Ideal Forms, Internalized knowledge, cosmic stability?????
you decide!
nota bene: it may be true that applying Plato to either requires a specious argument, an invalid a priori assumption about modernism/postmodernism , or a distortion/misapplication/misunderstanding of Plato....
2006-09-15 00:32:29 · answer #2 · answered by Gemelli2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Cave has been arround twenty some centuries before modernism or postmodernism. Why not attack the question on whether modernism or postmodernism is more concerned with reality or the perception of reality?
2006-09-14 22:50:33 · answer #3 · answered by OldGringo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you from Mt. Pleasant and do you go to Central? If so, what up? I am in a class where we just read "The Republic," by Plato. It was all about the cave. Well, I must not be as studied as you because I really don't know the answer to your question.
2006-09-14 22:31:46 · answer #4 · answered by ms. fix-it 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think Plato's cave applies to either any more than the other. He's getting at some pretty deep philosophical stuff that applies to all humans across every time imaginable.
2006-09-15 01:12:48 · answer #5 · answered by Walty 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd say post-modernism. In Pomo, the stories (narratives) we tell are more important than the actual truth of what we say. Indeed, pomo is a rejection of truth, we see how well it worked in Athens (Sophists are Plato's main opponents) and now we are seeing it run rampant again.
2006-09-15 13:46:51 · answer #6 · answered by James P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
modernism-there's so much that we don't know and people sometimes need to open there eyes and realize what reality is-or is not.
2006-09-14 22:28:34 · answer #7 · answered by grs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, I don't know, I haven't read it. Thanks for the link.
2006-09-14 21:53:43 · answer #8 · answered by poet_by_nature 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋