The Republic
Is the world I see real, or is it merely shadows cast on a cave wall?
📝ONGO's Reflection
I have never forgotten the shock of first encountering Plato's allegory of the cave. We may all be prisoners, bound in a cave, believing the shadows cast upon the wall to be the real world. The inquiry the author pursues so relentlessly, through the mouth of Socrates, into what justice is and what the good life means, still resounds with weight today. Will you be content with shadows, or will you endure the blinding light, walk out of the cave, and face the true sun? This book is a great invitation that will shake your worldview from the ground up.
"The just man sets in order his own inner life, and is his own master and his own law."Plato, The Republic
"정의로운 사람은 자신의 내면을 조화롭게 다스려 스스로의 온전한 주인이 된다."
🌱Apply It Today
Pick one sensational news story or piece of gossip you come across today, and ask: what if this, like shadows on the cave wall, isn't really true? Look past it for what lies beneath.
