അങ്ഗ്യങ്ങള്, ചിത്രങ്ങള് ,ബിബംബങ്ങള് പ്രതീകങ്ങള് ആണ് . പ്രതീകങ്ങളില് ദൈവത്തെ കാണുന്നവന് അടുത്തുള്ള മനുഷ്യനില് ദൈവത്തെ കാണാന് ബുദ്ധിമുട്ടില്ല . അങ്ങനെ മനുഷ്യന് മാറി സത് ചിത് ,ആനന്ദില് സന്തുലിതാവസ്ഥ നിലനിറുത്തണം....ഇതിനാണ് ആരാധന . ഭഗവത് ദര്ശനം ! ചില എഴുത്തുകാര് ചെയുന്നപോലെ വെറും എഴുത്തുക്കാരന് ആവാന് എനിക്ക് തീരെ മോഹമില്ല ! ദേര്ശനംമുള്ള എഴുത്ത്ക്കാരന് ആകാന് മോഹം ................
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Plato
What Can we Know?
ANAMNESIS
For Plato, gaining knowledge was a form of recollection. At some stage in a previous disembodied existence, each individual has had direct knowledge of the Forms. Objects serve as visible reminders of this prior knowledge.
ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE
Plato, through the character of Socrates, invites us to imagine prisoners chained within a cave so that all they see are shadows cast on a wall by a fire. These shadows are but images of the reality of the outside world to which their back is turned, but for the prisoners, they represent reality. Imagine further that one of the prisoners is freed. He would see the fire, but he would be blinded by the light and would retreat to the familiar shadow world. If he were dragged from the cave into the light of the sun, he would finally confront the world as it really is. To return to the shadow world would become difficult. If he did so and tried to share his new knowledge of reality with the cave dwellers, he would be scorned.
This allegory is an extension of Plato's image of the Good as the light of understanding. It illustrates how, in relying on the senses and perception, man mistakes the shadow for substance. Like all good allegories, this one has many layers of meaning. For Plato, only those who have attained an understanding of the Good, who have ascended from the cave, are true philosopers. Only such men would be fitted to govern, to be the philosopher kings in his utopian Republic.
For Plato, gaining knowledge was a form of recollection. At some stage in a previous disembodied existence, each individual has had direct knowledge of the Forms. Objects serve as visible reminders of this prior knowledge.
Plato, through the character of Socrates, invites us to imagine prisoners chained within a cave so that all they see are shadows cast on a wall by a fire. These shadows are but images of the reality of the outside world to which their back is turned, but for the prisoners, they represent reality. Imagine further that one of the prisoners is freed. He would see the fire, but he would be blinded by the light and would retreat to the familiar shadow world. If he were dragged from the cave into the light of the sun, he would finally confront the world as it really is. To return to the shadow world would become difficult. If he did so and tried to share his new knowledge of reality with the cave dwellers, he would be scorned.
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