Allegoryofthecave

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English

 

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Sandra W

 

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June 10, 2014

 

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University

 

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In the beginning of Allegory, Socrates provides an image to Glaucon. That image is a dark cave, with prisoners chained together so that they may only see what is in front of them. Behind them lies a fire, and behind that fire is a “low wall built along the way….over which they show the puppets.” For the prisoners, the only reality they know is the shadows of these puppets, which they see on the wall in front of them...
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This is the first of Plato’s arguments, that being that everyone begins their life in a state of almost blindness, or childhood, to put it simply. Socrates goes on to tell Glaucon that when each prisoner is released from this, “…he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows...
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