Thank you for the link! I found 'Return to the Cave' particularly interesting. The prisoners, according to Socrates, would infer from the returning man's blin

Thank you for the link! I found 'Return to the Cave' particularly interesting. The prisoners, according to Socrates, would infer from the returning man's blindness that the journey out of the cave had harmed him and that they should not undertake a similar journey. Socrates concludes that the prisoners, if they were able, would therefore reach out and kill anyone who attempted to drag them out of the cave. That's the sort of quote that inspires one to study philosophy. It illustrates perfectly the difficulty we have as humans in informing each other.