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  • Essay / Confusion and Plato - 911

    ConfusionConfusion afflicts everyone in the world. Everyday people are subject to struggles that cause them to become confused and not fully enjoy what the world has to offer. Simply put, confusion is “an altered orientation to time, place, or person; a disturbed mental state. That said, it's obvious that there's a lot that is likely to be confusing and confusing. Reading Plato, one cannot help but be confused, some confused as to the general meaning, some confused as to the actual wording. Regardless, Plato is a difficult book to follow, and the way it is written is much more confusing. But what is confusion, is it just something we need to understand something, if there was no confusion would we ever learn anything? Are we confused because we don't want to learn? Is it just that the brain can't always integrate various questions or topics? In the case of Plato, I believe that to better understand, one must be confused in order to truly understand the true meaning of the book, and by reading, thinking, and getting help, I believe one can fully understand Plato in its entirety. “We speak of carrying and we speak of being carried, of leading and being led, of seeing and being seen” (Plato 437). A line like that can surely cause many problematic situations for readers because of the way it is worded and really makes the task even more difficult for the brain to understand, rather than if it was worded very simply and did not require a lot of thought. I think this is what makes Plato fit in better, because if one has to look back and reread a certain part multiple times, it will only make it easier to understand and understand for future reading . I believe in my case the high levels of confusion led me to look back and read it several times, as well as ask more questions about the book, giving me a much better perspective and insight. better understanding of the text. This makes confusion a very useful tool for better understanding a text. Although the confusion is not intentional, it is unintentional, and in Plato's case one can find a lot of confusion, and one can gain a lot of understanding from that confusion. We're not intentionally confusing each other, I don't think it's possible for just one. intentionally confuse themselves if they already know the material.