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fictitious experts based on their personalities.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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In addition to Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the Shadowserver conjures the sinister aspects of noir and the industrial technologies of the electric light and motion picture.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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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.
Plato's allegory of the cave, which appears in his discussion of the theory of knowledge and education, appears in book 7 of the Republic.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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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 allegory of the cave in the "Republic" similarly reflects the centrality of the cosmic light of wisdom.
Plato's cave allegory receives a contemporary interpretation in which we are to understand ourselves as at least four-dimensional.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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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.
It was like seeing Plato's Cave Allegory come to life through the eyes of a young peregrine who had just emerged from his world of shadows into the light of the sun.
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