This theme has occurred for the entire length of human history, up until this very day. Encouraged to reveal our true selves, the different and strange were lead to believe safety and acceptance were awaiting them but judgement and intense discrimination followed instead. They were subjected to the thoughts that their 'true' selves were less than. Decided by individuals who created a universal judgement.

This is very familiar to relation to the Evil eye, the all seeing eye. Follows you everywhere, watches you constantly yet you are hardly ever aware of its presence. This is comparable to to the roll of our government tracking us through the little camera in our computers, following our car gps', tracking our back accounts...panopticism has not diminished but evolved

Thu Mar 02 2017 11:19:57 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

The assumption of truths in the past, clouds our judgment of the present/future, in the past we always relied so much on someone else's knowledge. It created an atmosphere for skepticism, and people were less inclined to debunk previous ideas. Even if these ideas were wrong, it clouded their current judgment. When the past should be used as stepping stone so to speak, a guidance in discovery.

This is purely interesting to me because I find myself people watching and I will think to myself, "if I can see them, they must be able to see me, I should stop staring". Also brings up and interesting conversation about perception, a difference in vision

A theme continuing from in my first essay, being how easily the eyes are tricked, and in this passage "confused". For prisoners who have spent time in the cave and above it, will question, and be suspicious all things now that they have two different experiences to pull from. Having a constant in ones mind, which one is the truth, which one ins'? This debate can go on and on and on, in every aspect of our world.

I think this says something about humans ability to adapt when most needed to, in the simplest of forms. More focused on sight, when we cannot see something we go for the next 'best' thing, in this instance touch. However I also think that certain times call for certain senses.

This is true, these inventions based off of our most basic senses, have unlocked many doors in science and have caused many revelations. That without understanding the basis of our senses in the first places would not have been imagined.

So do we "see" things before we really "see" them? Do we have these pre-existing thoughts that only become when we are faced with them involving our physical senses? and then only then do we recognize and understand them?

If it isn't what "they say" then it is wrong and holds no validity. You are not allowed to even have any opinion against "Holy doctrine"

Overall I thought this reading was interesting. Plato, gives the eyes a certain power that struck me really hard. You can look at these organs from many angles and on the surface, and biologically they are just organs but in this reading Plato's explanation dove deeper into the creation of our human bodies, subsequently giving them much more meaning. I really liked that specific angle.

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