Abstract This essay aims to shed new light on the stages of moral enlightenment in the Allegory of the Cave, of which there are three. I focus on the two stages within the cave, represented by eikasia and pistis, and provide a phenomenological description of these two mental states. The second part of the essay argues that there is a structural parallelism between the Allegory of the Cave and the ending of the Republic. The parallelism can be convincingly demonstrated by a purely formal analysis, but additionally it complements and reinforces the original interpretation of the Cave, insofar as the ending of the Republic also mirrors, on the level of content, the previously adduced stages of moral enlightenment.

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洞穴的寓言、共和国的终结与道德启蒙的阶段

摘要 本文旨在揭示洞穴寓言中道德启蒙的三个阶段。我关注洞穴内以 eikasia 和 pistis 为代表的两个阶段，并提供这两种心理状态的现象学描述。文章的第二部分认为，洞穴寓言与共和国的终结之间存在结构上的平行关系。这种平行性可以通过纯粹的形式分析得到令人信服的证明，但此外，它补充和加强了对洞穴的原始解释，就共和国的结局而言，在内容层面上，也反映了先前提出的道德启蒙阶段。