ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE

Background
- Plato, 380 BC
- The Republic, Book 7 out of 10
- what is justice?

Text
- education and the lack of it, and the effect of it on our “nature”
- aim of education turn the soul around by changing its desires
- only oneself is capable of turning one’s head in order to see the light or be
“educated”

Immanuel Kant
- minority: self-incurred immaturity, cowardice
- sapere aude: dare to be wise, motto of enlightenment
- involves a lot of pain and discomfort in seeing new things
- condition of enlightenment is freedom (to be able to speak up, to think for
oneself and share it to others)
- public vs. private freedom