The Republic, Book 7: riassunto

Cosa succede

1. Socrates imagines chained prisoners who mistake shadows for reality, while a freed prisoner painfully adjusts to sunlight.
2. The returning prisoner struggles in darkness, and the others resist anyone who tries to free them.
3. Socrates explains the ascent as education toward the good, which redirects an existing power within the soul.
4. He argues that educated philosophers must share political duties because the State seeks the welfare of all citizens.
5. Arithmetic and geometry become required studies because they direct thought beyond sensory appearances toward unchanging being.
6. Socrates corrects the proposed order of studies: solids must follow plane geometry and precede astronomy.

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