Allegory Of The Cave
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A report I had to do on Plato's . Plato
was born 427 B.C. and died 347 B.C. He was a pupil
under Socrates. During his studies, Plato wrote the
Dialogues, which are a collection of Socrates' teachings.
One of the parables included in the Dialogues is "The
". "The Allegory..." symbolizes man's
strugg ....
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.... ideas in
the mind. Yet, if someone goes into the light of the sun and
beholds true reality and then proceeds to tell the other
captives of the truth, they laugh at and ridicule the
enlightened one, for the only reality they have ever known is
a fuzzy shadow on a wall. They could not possibly
comprehend another dimension without beholdin! g it
themselves, therefore, they label the enlightened man mad.
For instance, the exact thing happened to Charles Darwin.
In 1837, Darwin was traveling aboa ....
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