What is a good analysis about Plato's analogy of the divided line?

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What is a good analysis about Plato's analogy of the divided line?

Answer 1

First of all it's difficult and, in many instances, an arguable analogy.

The first source below gives you an excellent analysis of Plato's analogy of the divided line - the philosophical. Concentrate on this point of the divided line: it clarifies the nature of noesis to other kinds of knowledge, which are presented mainly by way of contrast -- four in all.

Second to understand this analogy and give a more comprehensive analogy go to an example of how it is applied. The second source below gives you an example of how the analogy may work towards a problem of today - the practical application.

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