ABSTRACT
Man’s whole being-in-the-world is about to be transformed much more radically than it was changed by the Industrial Revolution. As we all know, for Plato himself as well as for interpreters of Plato, the Parable of the Cave is, on the one hand, an interpretation of the ordinary mode of being-in-the-world and, on the other hand, a description of the task of the philosopher, or to be more precise, the paideia, the education, the movement that he who is supposed to become a philosopher has to go through. In the one regard, Plato continued, in his own way, an already existing tradition, in the other his parable addressed an acute plight of the soul in the concrete historical situation of his time, rather than representing the fundamental dismissal of the cave of the initiates and necromancers along with the former mythic-ritualistic mode of being-in-the-world as a whole.
