11.12.07 ethics notes

• Aristotle was Plato’s student
• Myth tells role of reason: deep cave, men inside unable to speak, chained, face only back, can hear each other, can see shadows of outside shadow. Plato asked his brother what they would see as real- they answered the shadows, but no one escapes, very bright, person outside he wants to talk to, but talks to shadow- realizes that what is real is not shadow, tells others about reality but they don’t believe- AKA cave = ignorance and to get out is work
• Plato says reality is through reason, not just senses (do you “see” what I mean?)
• Cidos- to see with mind; to see reality with reason
• Must be something outside of “the truth” that makes it real
• Philosophy is an activity to get us out of the cave; search for reality