On Thursday, 28 January 2021 at 18:47:28 UTC, rpre...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 1:23:31 PM UTC-5, Michael F. Stemper wrote: >>
Does anybody know if Lewis was deliberately invoking Plato'sThere's a fair amount of discussion of the possibility. Here are two:
cave in this scene, or is it merely an unintentional similarity?
(Or, I guess that I could be all wet in my understanding of
Plato's cave, and there really isn't any similarity.)
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/voxnova/2009/09/30/the-allegory-of-the-cave-in-the-writings-of-lews-and-barfield/
https://anunexpectedjournal.com/finding-faith-in-fairy-tales-answers-for-modern-skeptics-from-c-s-lewiss-the-silver-chair/
if I don't check, does that include the reveal from
_The Last Battle_, apparently, that...
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"It's all in Plato"?
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