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This 10 page paper explains Plato's Allegory of the Cave in detail. Specific symbols are discussed and supporting quotes are given from the text. Allegories, metaphors, and philosophies are offered as well. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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then, became the premise for Platos theory of knowledge and formed the basis for his rejection of sensory perceived knowledge. He illustrated these ideas through his allegorical story: The Allegory
of the Cave. In the dark recess of a cave there are a group of people chained together. Their line of sight is limited and they cannot see one
another. As a matter of fact, the only thing that they can see are shadows on the side of the cave wall. Such prisoners would mistake appearance for reality. They
would think the things they see on the wall (the shadows) were real; they would know nothing of the real causes of the shadows(Allegory of the Cave, see also Gold
17). "To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images"(Plato, Book VII, 515c). The images are produced by a fire that the
captures keep going all the time. The captives are not allowed to move around so what they know of their small world comes to them from what they can smell,
see, hear, taste, and within a limited distance, touch. The shadows that they view on the walls sometimes take the form of animals sometimes human. None of the captives even
know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside of the cave into the
light. He is so inspired by the sunlight that he conspires to return to his comrades and tell them of the things he has seen so that they, too, will
attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representations of reality, and not reality
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