El significado político de la alegoría de la caverna de Platón
The Political Significance of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
Palabras clave:
Platón, alegoría, caverna, cultura, política (es)Plato, allegory, cave, culture, politics (en)
la humanidad en general, y que la caverna simboliza el mundo visible de la experi-encia corriente, mientras el mundo fuera de esta representa el reino de las ideas. La suspensión de estos supuestos posibilita una lectura que resalta los temas culturales
y políticos que están en juego en esta famosa alegoría.
questions regarding the main hypotheses grounding the effort to find an epistemo-logical parallel between the cave and the line: that the prisoners represent humanity in general, and that the cave symbolizes the visible world of everyday experience,
while the world outside the cave represents the realm of ideas. The suspension of these assumptions makes possible a reading that highlights the cultural and politi-cal issues at stake in this famous allegory.
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