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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler

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What is reality, knowledge, the meaning of life?

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Big topics you might tackle figuratively

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explaining existence as a journey down a road or across an ocean,

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a climb, a war, a book, a thread, a game, a window of opportunity,

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or an all-too-short-lived flicker of flame.

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2,400 years ago,

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one of history's famous thinkers said life is like being chained up in a cave,

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forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall.

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Pretty cheery, right?

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That's actually what Plato suggested in his Allegory of the Cave,

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found in Book VII of "The Republic,"

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in which the Greek philosopher envisioned the ideal society

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by examining concepts like justice, truth, and beauty.

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In the allegory, a group of prisoners have been confined in a cavern since birth,

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with no knowledge of the outside world.

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