The whole cave parable is like "what if the reality I experience is but a crude approximation and ill defined shadows cast by the real world? And I am forced to sit and observe reality this way."

This basically sounds like a description of when I am really drunk and my vision is blurring and doubling before blacking out (which itself proves impermanence and subjectivity of reality, if you think about it).

I think Plato was an alcoholic trying to dress things up in a baroque philosophical framework to justify it.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    It's easier to point out western philosophers that weren't alcoholic. Kant...uhhh...Godel maybe? Not Augustine or Aquinas, thats for sure