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A 7 page paper that provides an overview of Plato's considerations regarding the Sun and goodness in The Republic. This paper demonstrates the ideas presented through Socrates' characterization regarding the image of the sun, reason, knowledge and wisdom. Bibliography lists no additional sources.
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is derived through striving for wisdom. Although in the discourse leading up to Socrates Analogy of the Sun Socrates suggests that he has no complete knowledge of what goodness really
is, Glaucon insists that Socrates present some kind of an explanation or example to support his sense of what goodness really is. Through out a major segment of
Book VI, Socrates struggles with a presentation of the idea of goodness (502d-509c). But the Analogy of the Sun provides Socrates with the necessary arguments to support the correlation
between knowledge and goodness. It should be noted that in the section prior to Socrates story, Glaucon provides a discourse that suggests that goodness can mean different things for different
people. The argument that ensues suggests that some may find goodness in something that physically satisfying, while others may consider goodness to be a construct of spirituality. But
through out, Socrates focus hinges on his understanding of knowledge and his sense that goodness and knowledge are inherently connected. Socrates contends through out The Republic that reason is an
imperative construct of knowledge. The Analogy of the Sun creates an image that compares reason to the Sun, and just as the Sun is essential for many basic elements
of life, Socrates contends that reason is as well. Socrates considers the difference between those things that can be understood through the senses, including vision, and those things that
can only be known and understood but never sensed. Things like love, goodness and understanding can never be perceived through senses like sight, but they exist as phenomenally important
elements of human existence. Socrates considers the Sun in comparison to reason because the Sun provides light just as reason provides enlightenment. The sense of sight cannot
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