In “The Allegory of the Cave,” Plato uses the cave analogy to explain knowledge and reality. In his story, people who are chained inside a cave can see only shadows on the wall and take them ...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave by Jan Saenredam, according to Cornelis van Haarlem, 1604. Source: Wikimedia Commons The Allegory of the Cave (circa 380 BCE) Human beings spend all their lives in an ...

We have to dive into Plato’s cave. Let’s say you chained up several people from birth so that they were always facing the wall of a cave (kind of a fucked up thing for you to do, but just roll with it ...

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On the one hand, the writers, Sanders and Kirk De Micco, seem to have adapted for mass consumption the Greek philosopher Plato's Allegory (or Analogy) of the Cave and the metaphor of the cave ...

Rather than follow your liberator out of the cave, you collectively turn your attention back to the shadows. In Plato’s allegory we’re supposed to conclude that the deluded prisoners are both victims ...