Tending Plato's Elephant
"Tending Plato's Elephant" is a short essay by Karl Jones.
Tending Plato's Elephant
People forget that Plato was a warrior and statesman, and a slave-owner to boot
Given the chance, Plato would have locked us up in that cave and forced us to tend the elephant
Commentary
Origins
A mix of "Prisoners in Plato's cave" and "Blind men tending Plato's elephant"
Mental models
"mental models do make a difference in delivering results"
Is the Prisoners in a Cave metaphor better than the Blind Men with an Elephant metaphor?
It is if you're the prisoner in the cave.
- Post @ Twitter (26 November 2022)
In the News
Yes yes, it's all very tragic. —Juvenal.
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Tending Plato's Elephant (Gnomon Chronicles screenshot).
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Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Plato @ Wikipedia
- Allegory of the cave @ Wikipedia
- Blind men and an elephant @ Wikipedia