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As a lover of Mumford and Sons, philosophy student, and literature major, I have to point out that, while there are things in the lyrics that hint at Plato's cave and Greek thought, the ideas of seeking truth and allusions to the Odyssey, the lyric most people cite as directly referencing Plato's Cave ("so come out of your cave walking on your hands") is actually adapted from a quote by G.K. Chesterton, a British thinker and theologian, writing on St. Francis Assisi ("he looked at the world as differently from other men as though he had come out of that dark hole walking on his hands"). The speaker here also seems to be recognizing a duty to humanity and overcoming temptations of selfishness rather than fostering a new desire to seek philosophical enlightenment and overcoming ignorance and flawed intellectual thought patterns, as (simplified) is the case in Plato's cave/Republic. Just some thoughts.
Jbomb482 (talk) 23:49, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
