Comments on: Something is rotten… https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2012/06/something-is-rotten/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Tue, 09 May 2017 04:45:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4 By: chrisgale https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2012/06/something-is-rotten/comment-page-1/#comment-604 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:48:00 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=526#comment-604 Kids grow up. They have watched their elders, and seen them as wanting.

The comment from the cave is right on the mark.

]]> By: Cane Caldo https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2012/06/something-is-rotten/comment-page-1/#comment-603 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:54:00 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=526#comment-603 Thanks for that link to the Emily Willingham blog. Unintentionally funny read. It reminded me of the Myth of the Cave; particularly this part:

(From Wikipedia) “Socrates next asks Glaucon to consider the condition of this man. “Wouldn’t he remember his first home, what passed for wisdom there, and his fellow prisoners, and consider himself happy and them pitiable? And wouldn’t he disdain whatever honors, praises, and prizes were awarded there to the ones who guessed best which shadows followed which? Moreover, were he to return there, wouldn’t he be rather bad at their game, no longer being accustomed to the darkness? Wouldn’t it be said of him that he went up and came back with his eyes corrupted, and that it’s not even worth trying to go up? And if they were somehow able to get their hands on and kill the man who attempts to release and lead them up, wouldn’t they kill him?” (517a) The prisoners, ignorant of the world behind them, would see the freed man with his corrupted eyes and be afraid of anything but what they already know. Philosophers analyzing the allegory argue that the prisoners wouldironically find the freed man stupid due to the current state of his eyes and temporarily not being able to see the shadows which are the world to the prisoners.

Emily’s poor boys. To be born out of the cave, and then shackled later.

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