Eschatological Optimism

By: Daria Platonova Dugina

Daria Platonova Dugina

In the Myth of the Cave as told in Plato’s Republic, a prisoner of the cave of illusions escapes and comes to know the true reality of the outside world and the heavens above, only to realize that he must make a return descent to enlighten his fellow humans — at the risk of sorrow and even death. Socrates insists that the true phil…