 Findlay delivered the Gifford Lectures in two series at the University of St. Andrews, the first set, The Discipline of the Cave, from December 1964 to February 1965, the second set, The Transcendence of the Cave, from December 1965 to January 1966. The Discipline of the Cave is dominated by the cave metaphor presented in Plato’s Republic; The Transcendence of the Cave is dominated by the metaphor of the metaphysical hemisphere, derived from Plotinus, especially Ennead V, 8, “Of Intellectual Beauty”.