Parmenides: Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

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Parmenides was of the Pre-Socratic times that focused on the offspring of philosophy, metaphysics. Parmenides philosophy relies heavily on reason, which influenced the thinking of Plato and Aristotle tremendously. A monist with such a radical metaphysical view on what is there and what is not, or what actually exists and what doesn’t. Understand and accept that Parmenides views are tenable yet also counterintuitive. His views open our eyes to knowing that the fundamental nature of reality has nothing in common with how we experience and interpret our world. I as well would disregard and agree with Parmenides on senses being very misleading because everyone’s senses are not the same as well as having such factors from the external environment can alter these as well. Focusing on reason to reveal the truth and genuine knowledge should only involve being. For example, when separating an object from its background, we can interpret the object as something, but we cannot do the same for the background. So we can look at the object as being “what is” and the background as “what is not” and
Never seen daylight or behind them. Behind them sat a fire, then a wall lined with statues which are controlled by other people that are also out of sight. Their only reality lies within the shadows casted from the fire. A prisoner is finally set free and able to see that everything he once thought was real, really wasn’t. He figured out his situation and why the shadows came about and figured the fire and statues was what was really real. The prisoner is taken through different levels on the line. There is a visible realm we enhance with our sense and then there is an intelligible realm we enhance with our minds. Plato believes that we have knowledge of knowing things even before we were born. Obtained knowledge through recollection drives us back to already of had having that