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::Am I the only person here who interprets the "real" idea behind Plato's Cave to be a way to make philosophers feel superior to others?[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.18|108.162.216.18]] 20:05, 29 November 2019 (UTC) | ::Am I the only person here who interprets the "real" idea behind Plato's Cave to be a way to make philosophers feel superior to others?[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.18|108.162.216.18]] 20:05, 29 November 2019 (UTC) | ||
:::Is there any part of philosophy that isn't? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.35.75|172.69.35.75]] 19:14, 29 January 2021 (UTC) | :::Is there any part of philosophy that isn't? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.35.75|172.69.35.75]] 19:14, 29 January 2021 (UTC) | ||
β | :::While I get where you're coming from (modern "philosophers" tend to be pretty stuck-up), that isn't actually the case here. If I remember my History of Philosophy class correctly, the general idea behind Socrates's, Plato's, and Aristotle's works was that they tried to find a way to classify things, to describe what something ''really is''. Plato, being a hippie mystic several millennia before being a hippie became cool, took this a little too literally. He decided that these "Forms" or "Categories" were what's "really real", with what we perceive being an imperfect reflection of | + | :::While I get where you're coming from (modern "philosophers" tend to be pretty stuck-up), that isn't actually the case here. If I remember my History of Philosophy class correctly, the general idea behind Socrates's, Plato's, and Aristotle's works was that they tried to find a way to classify things, to describe what something ''really is''. Plato, being a hippie mystic several millennia before being a hippie became cool, took this a little too literally. He decided that these "Forms" or "Categories" were what's "really real", with what we perceive being an imperfect reflection of these. β[[User:TheDaleks|TheDaleks]] ([[User talk:TheDaleks|talk]]) 21:11, 17 April 2023 (UTC) |