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Allegory of the Cave and Natural philosophy

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Difference between Allegory of the Cave and Natural philosophy

Allegory of the Cave vs. Natural philosophy

The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature". Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) was the philosophical study of nature and the physical universe that was dominant before the development of modern science.

Similarities between Allegory of the Cave and Natural philosophy

Allegory of the Cave and Natural philosophy have 4 things in common (in Unionpedia): Martin Heidegger, Physis, Plato, Theory of forms.

Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger (26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition and philosophical hermeneutics, and is "widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century." Heidegger is best known for his contributions to phenomenology and existentialism, though as the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy cautions, "his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification".

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Physis

Physis (Greek: italic phusis) is a Greek theological, philosophical, and scientific term usually translated into English as "nature".

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Plato

Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn, in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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Theory of forms

The theory of Forms or theory of Ideas is Plato's argument that non-physical (but substantial) forms (or ideas) represent the most accurate reality.

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Allegory of the Cave and Natural philosophy Comparison

Allegory of the Cave has 54 relations, while Natural philosophy has 162. As they have in common 4, the Jaccard index is 1.85% = 4 / (54 + 162).

References

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