His "Allegory of the Cave" gives us great insight into the human condition. ... Plato's cave has several such symbols, as well as some that are not so obvious. ... The first symbol we encounter is the cave itself, which represents the ignorance of mankind. ... Finally, the man is able to look at the sun itself. Plato is saying that the journey toward enlightenment, or the "sun", is difficult and long, and that people will fight against it because they are content in their ignorance. ...

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Plato's Republic - The Three Great Analogies The Allegory of the Cave, like most things in philosophy, can be interpreted in many different ways. ... The main point of the Allegory of the Cave is to give an example of the way that we all live our lives. ... I seem to think there is another meaning to the Allegory of the Cave. ... The Outside of the cave, the true reality, then is a symbol of heaven. ... He expresses this theory with three approaches: his allegory of The Cave, his metaphor of the Divided Line and the Simile of the Sun. ...

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"The Allegory of the Cave" was written by Plato, one of the greatest philosophers in history. ... To make understand an easy realism, Plato showed all of the elements and people as symbols or metaphors to indicate a difference among educated and uneducated persons. ... After that, he was forced to go out of the cave to see the sun. As soon as he looked at the sun, his eyes was dazzled. ... In "The Allegory of the Cave" Plato demonstrated his views of education as, "so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of...

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Book VII of Plato's The Republic (which, for ease, will be referred to as The Cave) is an allegory about society and the restraints that are placed on members as well as education or the lack there of and the consequences. An allegory is the telling of a story using symbols to tell about something the author wants to reveal. ... Plato goes on to propose what might happen if one of these men was to break free and climb his way out of the cave into the real world. ... Plato tells us that the man would most surely want to go back into the cave, but only to persuade others to join him in t...

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