The Republic: Plato

By J. Hayward. 2007

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Subfields: Philosophy

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• Serious Play as a Practice of Paradox (2011, background): “Philosophers have argued that playful exercise of the imagination is a condition for the possibility of ethical judgment, as people can envision different scenarios and make appropriate judgments (Freydberg, 1997; Kant, 1970/1987; Plato, 1968).”
• The Interface Theory of Perception (2009, unknown): “In the Republic, Plato famously argued in his “allegory of the cave” that the relationship between reality and our perceptual experiences (and, moreover, all of our conventional beliefs) is like the relationship between objects and their shadows cast on the wall of a cave by a fire (Bloom 1991).”