Etcetera

"My question can be re-written against the background of Plato's allegory of the Cave - and of its meaning and interpretation. To be brief: is logic the light of the sun in the attainment of truth - "Enlightenment" - or is it instead the shadowy cave of untruth? Alternatively, is the conception of escape proposed by logic, and subsequently projected upon the allegory, a futile and violent attempt to deny the predicament of our shadowy existence? Are the shadows - the truth - and the light - shadows? Is logic a strategy of escape from the intensities and ambiguities of chaotic sensuality - and its regime of selection and exclusion - the cave? It is certainly possible that the contenders in this dispute can each appropriate the allegory as a vehicle for the concretization of their own respective philosophical understandings and agendas. It is my task to disentangle this interpretive morass in order to detect traces of an intimate acquaintance with "truth" in each of the positions and... - Etcetera

[Drew Beam] - Etcetera