1. Plato
... of its own limited perspective. The rare individual escapes the limitations of that cave and, through a long, tortuous intellectual journey, discovers a higher realm, a true reality. He shows that the ascent to wisdom is definitely hard. Like the prisoner's journey out of the cave, our quest for knowledge, will be difficult. We, too, must "climb the wall", like the prisoner. We will be disoriented and ridiculed, like the prisoner. However, in the end, the prisoner saw the sun, the Form of the ... traditions so they had him killed. He challenged the works of Hesiod and Homer, which at th...
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- Grade Level: High School