... divergent subjects and remote from each other: the problem of knowledge and the lives of the dwellers of a cave. By comparing these subjects, Plato finds similitudes between the behavior of the inhabitants of the cave, how they move, see, and think, and the means in which the people have access to knowledge ... . Thus, Plato employs this analogy to explain his theory of knowledge. The author describes a cavernous and dark place, an ... shadowed wall of sounds the people walking on the road sometimes make, which the prisoners falsely believe are caused by the shadows (Plato). In the alleg...

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... for him to accept and puts him in denial. The idea of light indicating knowledge can be related to Plato's "Allegory of the Cave". Plato gives us as an example people living in the cave knowing nothing but the walls of the cave, "Here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot ... move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads." (Plato 277). When ... painful "glare" of truth might not be for everyone and they"d rather stay in the shadows of the Matrix. Just like the people in the cave, ...

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