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       Allegory of the Cave From Plato's Republic
       By: xavierhn Date: October 2, 2017, 4:09 am
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       How are we to understand what "representation" means in the
       history of metaphysics?
       Heidegger tells us that Plato's ιδεα is the
       beginning point to understand "representation" in later times.
       What does "ιδεα" mean for Plato?
       We have the allegory of the cave to answer this question. Plato
       calls this cave allegory
       παιδεια. In English it can be
       rendered as "education" and even "method", Heidegger puts the
       accent on a turning around the whole of humanity as the
       mainspring of παιδεια.
       The image of a cave is central, as a place of dwelling.
       The emphasis lives on this 'visible form' and the action of
       stepping forth, things presenting themselves.
       The movement outside and the return to the cave are fundamental
       bearing of παιδεια. Each
       moment out of the cave and into the light, and prior life in the
       cave are regions, ways of being accustomed to these regions,
       i.e., ways of seeing. Plato speaks of the 'eyes being confused'
       from one moment of movement outward the cavelight into the
       daylight.
       Plato calls the free looking in daylight
       ιδεα, meaning things show themselves
       immediately without human intervention.
       Ιδεα - means things show themselves as
       visible. There is an aspect of shining itself in
       Ιδεα. The ability to shine and be seen are
       present in Ιδεα. The
       Ιδεα provides vision.
       Heidegger points out that Plato's Ιδεα is
       possible only as an interpretation of
       αληθεια as a way of
       elucidating the "coming to presence of what a being is, in its
       whatness". The Ιδεα is marks the whatness of
       things as the meaning of beings brought forward in appearance.
       Again the 'allegory of the cave' means the 'unhidden' - this is
       Plato's way of speaking about what allows one to see what
       manifest, to which we have ιδεα.
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