PLATO
Question the answers that feel familiar, and keep asking what justice and a genuinely good life require.
427–347 BCEPlatonismGreece
Core ideas
JUSTICETHE GOODSOULEDUCATIONDIALOGUE
Works & sources
Republic · Apology · Timaeus
PLATO, a first reading
Plato explored justice and the good life through dialogue and questioning.
The cave allegory: what does it mean?
The cave in the Republic depicts a condition in which familiar appearances are taken for the whole truth. Education involves turning our attention toward what is real, rather than merely accumulating information.