Abstract

GALLO GONZALEZ, Maigre; MEDINA PENA, Rolando  and  MEDINA DE LA ROSA, Rolando. Platonic allegories and contemporary teaching: metaphor in the era of knowledge. Conrado [online]. 2019, vol.15, n.67, pp. 327-332.  Epub June 02, 2019. ISSN 1990-8644.

The article deals with an analysis of the context and theory of knowledge in Plato, specifically its allegory of the Cave as a metaphor for the search for freedom, both gnoseological, ontological and axiological. The philosophical background of the myth of the Cavern is a transcendent message that modern man does not yet fully overcome. We work on the nutritive sources of Platonic thought and its peculiar style of formulating its ideas about the epistemological phenomenon. Similarly, the emphasis on Plato's philosophy has played a fundamental role in Western thought in several and contradictory ways. At the same time, we approach how the teaching process can work in both directions as a binding to an equivocal and mediated vision of knowledge or as a means of liberation in the search for true knowledge. We use theoretical methods such as the logical historical and the synthetic analytical and from the empirical level the analysis of documents.

Keywords : Platonic allegories; philosophy; knowledge; teaching.

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