About this Event
In The Republic, Plato explores the predicament of the Cave: a passive citizen body, a conniving and self-interested set of sophistic opinion-formers and demagogic political leaders; a systematically misleading and damaging order of political structures and common beliefs and appetites. Does this have lessons for tackling climate change? In clinging to our current way of life and its fossil-fuel infrastructure, are we trapping ourselves in a modern version of Plato’s Cave – and if so, how might we escape?
A lecture by Professor Melissa Lane
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Gresham College, Barnard's Inn Hall, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
