This is the basic premise for Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which prisoners sit in a cave, chained down, watching images cast on the wall in front of them. ... The truth for Oedipus being that he is a prisoner of his own beliefs just as the men were prisoners of the cave. ... In "Allegory of the Cave" Plato alludes to a direct representation of the human condition of typical behaviors in society. The allegory metaphorically describes several key elements of the human condition of containing pertinent ideas about false perceptions being perceived instead of the intuition of reason. ......

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Allegory of the cave- what do you think are the qualities of an "enlightened", educated person? How does your idea about education relate to the education of the prisoner in Plato's cave story? ... For him, the cave and shadows were his reality. ... If you don't this then you"ll be in the cave forever. ...

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