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fictitious experts based on their personalities.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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In the Allegory of the Cave Plato describes a philosopher's eternal dream: the desire to know the truth.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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Using an image reminiscent of Abbott's "Flatland" and Plato's Allegory of the Cave, people who live in a small area and never see the stars ascribe a special physical attribute to the vertical direction of acceleration of falling bodies.
In Plato's Allegory of the Cave (in The Republic), after the prisoner is released from the cave, he is blind, but at first can look upon the shadows, and eventually reflections in mirrors or in water, before seeing actual objects, and eventually the sun itself.
I walked like a fragile figurine through the wreckage of what used to be my innocent security and began to ponder questions that seemed deeper and far more immediate than Plato's Allegory of the Cave, but it did not matter.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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The grail visions in the later texts like the Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal are, like the brutal thrusting into the light of the prisoners from Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the momentary glimpses on the initial stages of the spiritual path or quest, which as the Queste puts it, must be embarked upon alone as each person chooses their entry into the dark forest of adventure where there is no path.
The most famous is Plato's allegory of the prisoner in the cave who ascends from the shackles of opinion to ultimately gaze with true awareness upon the Sun, which symbolizes the source of Being, Beauty, and Goodness.
Plato's Cave Allegory helps students realize that education depends upon distinguishing illusion from reality, thus enhancing the freedom to choose, even if one only chooses the Socratic wisdom of not pretending to know what one does not know.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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In like manner, Plato's images of the upper portions of the divided line, and the two upper portions of the allegory of the cave, provide a theoretical context within which to make sense of the images constituting the two lower portions of the line.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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Exiting the Cave: The Lonely Journey (Spring 2001)This essay examines Plato's Allegory of the Cave in comparison to a number of business oriented essays to begin to make some insights about how we should live our lives in the business world.
And then I was going to go into the symbolism of Plato's allegory of the cave, and I see that you touch upon that as well as many other themes I haven't even begun to examine.
Having just read Plato's Allegory of the Cave for English class, it seemed natural to try to adapt the allegory into comic book form.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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Francis Bacon wrote over 400 years ago that for man to know himself he had to break away from conditioning and tradition which he called the Four Idols, The Idols of the tribe, Idols of the Cave (an allusion to Plato's cave allegory), Idols of the Market Place, and the Idols of the Theater.
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