... learn intelligence. On page 1199, Socrates exposes to Glaucon that "the prison house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the power of the sun" and "the journey upwards" is the "ascent of the soul into the intellectual world". Inside the cave, the prisoner envisions images of the outside world. When he frees himself, he will then see the real world beyond the cave walls. Socrates unravels the allegory of the cave. Once the soul has ascended, it would be undesirable to go back ... into the world of ignorance. Socrates beleives that the soul will be forever fixed ... ...

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... the strongest people rise up to the top. The other noble lie that is told is the procreation lottery. The lottery is constituted as population control in order to produce the correct amount of each class of citizen and only the best possible offspring. In order to better understand why these lies are necessary Socrates relates the story of the Allegory of the Cave to illustrate the necessity of the lies. In the Allegory of the Cave, people are chained together in a cave facing the walls. The ... only things they ever see are shadows, which unbeknownst to them, are controlled by other pe...

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... talking about when I mentioned true knowledge. We can have true knowledge about mathematics, because the rate never changes. Jacob: I've read your Allegory of the Cave. Can you explain it to me? Plato: I modeled the Allegory of the Cave after my teacher Socrates life, and his death. He like all of us was facing the wall of the cave and marveling at the shadows of our world. But he thought beyond our reality and freed himself from ... the chains. He went up to the real world and even though it was painful, uncovered the real world. He learned ... ...

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... the realm of immortality where the improvements you made in your last life carry over to your soul. Despite the fact that your soul is dipped into the River of Oblivion (Lethe) and you do not remember anything in your next life, you"re able to figure things out because you"re recollecting what your soul knew before. Plato also elaborated on knowledge with his famous allegory of the cave. The allegory ... is a representation of the state of ordinary human existence. Normal people live in the world of appearances. However, the ones who escape from the cave have made the effort to achieve ...

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... are only familiar with the appearances of shadows and thus they mistake appearance, which are the shadows, for Reality. Furthermore, they do not know what causes the shadows. We can reach the forms through the mind much like a sixth sense. We apprehend the higher world through mind in much the same way that we apprehend this world with our eyes. The cave allegory also proves that the role of education is not to ... teach in the sense of feeding people information they do not have, but rather to shed ... light on things they already know. Since the soul is immortal ... ...

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