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Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 7 page paper which discusses three
famous similes of Plato as found in his work “The Republic.”
The similes are, simile of the sun, simile of the divided
line, and simile of the cave. Bibliography lists 3
additional sources.
Page Count:
7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAsimile.rtf
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new way. In some ways he was a true scientist in relationship to being able to truly define life, enlightenment, and the human animal. In the following paper we present
three of his most famous similes and illustrate how his ideas, and his presentation of such ideas, clearly present a man who was well worthy of the title given him.
The similes presented are taken from Platos "Republic." Many state that "no other Dialogue of Plato has the same largeness of view and the same perfection of style; no other
shows an equal knowledge of the world, or contains more of those thoughts which are new as well as old, and not of one age only but of all" (Anonymous
Plato: Republic: The Introduction repub_00.htm). The similes discussed are the simile of the sun, the simile of the divided line, and the simile of the cave. Simile of the
Sun Plato begins: "Whose is that light which makes the eye to see perfectly and the visible to appear? You mean the sun, as you and all mankind say.
May not the relation of sight to this deity be described as follows? How? Neither sight nor the eye in which sight resides is the sun?
No. Yet of all the organs of sense the eye is the most like the sun? By far the most like" (204). Plato argues that the power of the
eye is essentially derived from the sun, which is true for all light which we perceive with the eye, and all color, is a result of the sun. Plato claims
that "the sun is not sight, but the author of sight who is recognized by sight.." and "this is he whom I call the child of the good, whom the
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