platos cave allegory is the stupidest reddit tier excuse for being profound

[Deleted member 18522]

muh things aren't how they seem bro no shit sherlock

can't expect me to believe that this is a revelation

i'm 14 and this is deep

 

[romanstock]

They all hate on Aristotle cause Aristotle is blunt whereas Plato is abstract. Yet the modern world and the age of reason is the result of Aristotle's reason overcoming Plato's nonsense during the Renaissance.

 

[Deleted member 23558]

The point is extrapolated to have implications on scholasticism vs nominalism . On its own it’s not profound.