05-24-2016, 05:07 PM
(05-24-2016, 04:59 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: The roots of the question are older than 1600's. Is a variation of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave".
I would say they are tied together, but I wouldn't say it is a variation. At least not the way the question was presented for this thread.
But I'm not a philosopher, so what do I know? I do know a blind philosopher, though, well, legally blind, not totally blind, and not from birth.
Now I'm just rambling.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
