<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Plato on Rielo Institute for Integral Development</title><link>https://riidblog.org/</link><description>Recent content in Plato on Rielo Institute for Integral Development</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://riidblog.org/tags/plato/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>If Truth Lies at the Bottom of the Well…</title><link>https://riidblog.org/post/24-10-2026/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://riidblog.org/post/24-10-2026/</guid><author>Cristina Scorrano</author><description>From Sciascia's well to Plato, Nietzsche and Foucault: what does it mean to seek the truth in the age of artificial intelligence and the infosphere?
There are dialogues, written in memorable books, that leave their mark on us and settle in our memory; mysteriously, they return to our thoughts like sparks from a fire.
In Leonardo Sciascia's novel The Day of the Owl (Il giorno della civetta), the mafioso don Mariano Arena, addressing Captain Bellodi of the Carabinieri, says: "Truth is at the bottom of a well: you look into a well and see the sun or the moon; but if you throw yourself in, there is no longer sun or moon, there is the truth."</description></item></channel></rss>