Allegory of the Cave comes from book VII of Plato's best know n work: The Republic. ... The Allegory is still useful and relevant in today's world. ... Plato's Allegory of the Cave begins by describing how people are chained in a cave. ... In today's world, "Allegory of the Cave" still speaks to us in politics. ... All of the analogies that Plato makes in Allegory of the Cave are still true in today's world. ...

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Plato's Republic - The Three Great Analogies The Allegory of the Cave, like most things in philosophy, can be interpreted in many different ways. ... The main point of the Allegory of the Cave is to give an example of the way that we all live our lives. ... I seem to think there is another meaning to the Allegory of the Cave. ... The Allegory says that it is painful to break the chains, and in most cases death is not pleasant. ... He expresses this theory with three approaches: his allegory of The Cave, his metaphor of the Divided Line and the Simile of the Sun. ...

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In his theory Allegory of the cave he explains the reason why society needs to be educated, sees the good in people and says the "bad" actions one commits are not necessarily bad but pure ignorance to which can be changed by education. ... " In his theory of Allegory of the Cave he refers the sun as knowledge, what makes things visible is therefore leading us to what is real. The shadows in the cave are reflections our minds make us believe not necessarily true. The darkness of cave is enabling us to be able to know the "real" world and the darker it is the less we see...

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