Category: 6c – Ontologic Trutth

Men Would Say, Up He Went and Down He Came Without His Eyes

Plato - Allegory of the Cave - People do not accept those who see the true light. "Men would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes", Thoughts of God, thoughtsofGod.com, David Reese

Men would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes; and that it was better not even to think of ascending; and if any one tried to loose another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the offender, and they would put him to death. […]

Plato – From the World of Becoming into That of Being – The Cave

Plato - Allegory of the Cave - "they must be made to descend again among the prisoners in the den, and partake of their labours and honours, whether they are worth having or not."

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 […]