... on how if one wants salvation he must experience pain and suffering before he can be happy. According to Dante the soul does live after physical death. It [the soul] goes on enduring and remembering the things that happen to it. You, the real you, the inner light you, never dies. You may go one. But in my view your soul ... evolved without individual thinking. As young fetus, all mammals resemble each other very much. You see a little body then with head and bottom, two arms on the shoulders and two legs on the hips. All mammals have the same inner-body, which resembles that of birds as...

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... light. This is the first step. Imagine prisoners living in a cave. They have been chained facing the rear wall of the cave since childhood. They are unable to move their legs or rotate their heads. Behind the prisoners on a higher level of the cave floor a fire burns. Between the fire and the prisoners is a low wall where people hold up puppets ... . He refuses to believe that his life has been spent looking at shadows that imitate objects. This is the third step. Behind the fire there is a long, narrow path that goes to the cave's entrance. The prisoner is dragged outside into the sunli...

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... of the cave, which is his theory on education that ultimately leads to enlightenment, starts off deep in a cave where there are prisoners chained to a wall by their neck and legs, forced to look forward. In the cave, prisoners are displayed images of what they have come to believe to be true of their reality. It is only when the prisoners ... schools that are told to stay seated and look forward. There is a fire behind the prisoners and in between the fire and them on a higher ground is a path. This path goes across the cave and along this, a low wall has been built, like the screen at ...

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... external world of appearances. On a level below the roadway and the fire, are men and women with their backs to the fire. They have been chained by their heads and legs and have been completely immobile since childhood. They live their lives watching the shadow against the walls, perceiving what they believe is reality. They shout what they believe each shadow ... action in this case. Glaucon disagrees with Socrates, stating that the now knowledge-filled prisoner shouldn't return to the Cave for he would be unhappy amongst so much darkness. Socrates goes on to explain to Glaucon that it...

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... upon this limited view of the cave wall which is a poor copy of the real world. From childhood, "...their legs and necks [have been] in bonds so that they are fixed, seeing only [what is] in front of them.... As Plato goes on to later explain, "the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images (The History Guide)." Since ... ...

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... upon this limited view of the cave wall which is a poor copy of the real world. From childhood, "...their legs and necks [have been] in bonds so that they are fixed, seeing only [what is] in front of them.... As Plato goes on to later explain, "the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images (The History Guide)." Since ... ...

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