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This is an 8 page paper discussing specific aspects of Plato’s The Republic as translated by A. Bloom. Aspects discussed are the Allegory of the Cave, The Soul and ethical and religious views in respect to arguments by Socrates and presented by A.J. Ayer. Direct references are made to Bloom’s 1968 translation.
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men are tied and only look at images reflected on the wall opposite them relates to the divided line previously discussed in 508E-509B when Socrates tells Glaucon about the line
dividing the visible world and the world of knowledge. The visible world for the prisoners underground is that what is projected on the wall and for them, the reality. They
are unable to talk to each other directly but when those who are carrying the artifacts mumble something, their voices echo against the walls and the prisoners can only assume
that these sounds are coming from the only things they can see; that is, the shadows on the wall. For all intense purposes, what exists underground and what is projected
on the wall is their reality. It is what is visible and they have no reason to believe that anything which appears to them is false or not real. They
are in a world of darkness, it is true, but it is the only world they have known because they have been there since childhood and they have no reason
to believe that anything else exists. 2.) When a prisoner is then "dragged away from there by force along the rough, steep, upward way and didnt let him go before
he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the other side of the divided line; that
of knowledge and good. The prisoner would have to be dragged because not only is the world unknown to him but he would also believe that the new world in
the light would be one that is unreal as it is not what he is used to. He had no reason to believe that the world underground and the projected
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