The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and…
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Perhaps the most famous idea in all of Plato’s work is the Allegory of the Cave. This much-discussed (and much-misunderstood) story is a key part of Plato’s Republic, a work…
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Updated on August 11, 2019. The Allegory of the Cave is a story from Book VII in the Greek philosopher Plato's masterpiece "The Republic," written around B.C.E. 375. It is…
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PLATO The Allegory of the Cave Translated by Shawn Eyer Plato’s famous allegory of the cave, written around 380 bce, is one of the most important and influential passages of…
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Abstract: Plato’s famous allegory of the cave, written around 380 BCE, is one of the most important and influential passages of The Republic, and is considered a staple of Western…
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Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave" is a concept devised by the philosopher to ruminate on the nature of belief versus knowledge. The allegory begins with prisoners who have lived their…
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The story of the prisoners trapped in a cave and their escape to the sunlight (knowledge) is from Plato’s masterwork, "The Republic." The ancient Greek philosopher Plato’s Allegory of the…
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PDF | This essay argues that “the good” is a forgotten central aspect of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, and that this forgetfulness about the good is... | Find, read…
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In a recent meeting of Westar’s Christianity Seminar, some scholars suggested that the trouble with Christianity is that Christians today mistake Plato’s allegory of the cave (found in Book Seven…
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As such, he was a threat to the “gods” of the caves. It is remarkable that caves, in antiquity were always associated with holy places and the worship of gods/goddesses.…
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The Origin of Plato's Cave on JSTOR. Journal Article. OPEN ACCESS. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 17 (1906), pp. 131-142 (12 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/310313.
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Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of history’s most famous thinkers, said life is like being chained up in a cave forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone…
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The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature". It is written as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates, narrated by the latter…