柏拉图的“洞穴喻”

On Plato's Cave-Metaphor

柏拉图在《理想国》中提出了“洞穴喻”的哲学寓言。这是一个关于人从黑暗走向光明 ,从无知走向有知 ,从被遗弃状态走向被拯救状态的神话。它最形象地表达了柏拉图的哲学理想 :“光源”是理念论的终极实在 ;“灵魂转向”是理念论的基本原理。柏拉图为西方思想精心设计了一个“光源隐喻” ,它是对光明的一种理解 ,是理性自主独立的凯歌 ,其核心是对“永恒在者”的“光源化”。西方现代文明之“根”一直可以回溯到柏拉图的这个最基本的哲学寓言。

Plato tells a philosophy story about Cave-Metaphor in his publication Ideal Realm. It is a fairy tale of the cave-deller be led up to lightness, knowledge, and saving. Plato's own interpretation of the Cave-Metaphor implys that “illumination source' is the Supreme Idea and “soul turning”is the foundational principle of idea theory. The idea derives their own power from the Supreme Idea, which is expressed by the sun.Plato designs a Illumination-Metaphor for western thought in which illumination and reason is conceived as essence. Plato's Maetaphor is different from Chinese Yin-Yang thought, it rises a metaphsical tradition in western history. The “roots' of western civilization can trace back to Plato's Cave-Metaphor.