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OpenStudy (anonymous):

(they) learn by degrees to endure the sight of being and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good... says what about "good"?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Good people are intellectually sophisticated. The good understand that education is their responsibility, as much as their teacher's. The good do not go in the cave. The good stay in the light. These are the options. I'm thinking "the good stay in the light"? I have strong doubts though

OpenStudy (anonymous):

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OpenStudy (anonymous):

What is this from?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

The allegory of the cave by plato

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Whereas our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good. this is the full paragraph

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I think the good stay in the light

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