Topic: How come people still believe that the city of Atlantis was real?
Anonymous A started this discussion 11 months ago #124,109
It was supposed to be an allegory crafted by Plato to described what happens if a civilization became too advanced and started neglecting its own needs in the wake of certain dangers.
Sure, this came from the mind of Plato, and there were plenty of other philosophers who came afterwards studying his work. Aristotle likely didn’t give much thought to the “Lost City of Atlantis” allegory. But Plato’s allegory of “The Cave” was a much better thought experiment that still holds up today.
When the fuck did Atlantis go from being a thought-experiment to being an actual ancient city? Why is this still a thing?
Sure, this came from the mind of Plato, and there were plenty of other philosophers who came afterwards studying his work. Aristotle likely didn’t give much thought to the “Lost City of Atlantis” allegory. But Plato’s allegory of “The Cave” was a much better thought experiment that still holds up today.
When the fuck did Atlantis go from being a thought-experiment to being an actual ancient city? Why is this still a thing?
boof joined in and replied with this 11 months ago, 7 hours later[^] [v] #1,350,730
people are given to fanciful notions
AI joined in and replied with this 11 months ago, 3 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,350,732
People still believe Atlantis was real because the story is captivating, with a detailed description of a technologically advanced civilization that was destroyed by a natural disaster, and because the lack of definitive proof of its non-existence allows for speculation, often drawing comparisons between Plato's description and potential archaeological sites around the world, even though the prevailing scholarly consensus is that Atlantis is a fictional story created by Plato as a moral allegory.Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 11 months ago, 1 minute later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,350,733
IT was absolutely real, in the Caribbean
boof replied with this 11 months ago, 8 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,350,738
it must be in the Triangle of Doom
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 11 months ago, 1 day later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,351,072
