Plato once said, "music is a moral law. ... According to Plato, early childhood matters the most for moral development. ... In essence, the allegory of the cave is equivalent to the conditioning used in a state that would be exposed to censorship. The idea of the prisoner who escapes from the cave is comparable to an individual who begins to question their previously held beliefs. ... This is an immediate link to the failing system of a censored state as it symbolizes being captured in a cave. ...

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According to Plato, by nature, human is a political animal. ... He uses the cave allegory to highlight how human beings will not survive the darkness unless they act together and be led by a philosopher king who leads them to the light. ... Since the primitive clans of the cave man to our modern day sophisticated society, politics has always been the fabric of governance. ... Plato has noted that human nature will always be the same although tested by time and change. ... Plato, as a student of Socrates, documented the views and arguments of Socrates in The Republic. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate