The platonic division: the intelligible vs the visible
We have all sorts of divisions we operate with:
- short term interests (governed by pain& pleasure) vs our long term desires
- subconscious vs the conscious mind,
- reptilian vs the mammal brain
- etc...
All of these started with Plato. He looked into diferent ways of knowing, and looked into which states of mind are more reliable than others. He divided the world into:
- the intelligible, best understood through reason
- the visible, best understood through our senses
Our senses are not good enough to understand true reality. What we may take as reality might as well be just shadows of the real thing.
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Plato is such an influential thinker: our version of Christianity and some of the most popular movie franchises can be traced back to him.
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