"The Allegory of the Cave" was written by Plato, one of the greatest philosophers in history. ... In this story, there were some prisoners in an underground cave since their childhood. ... After that, he was forced to go out of the cave to see the sun. ... He decided to teach his prison-mates what did he learned at outside of the cave and wanted to share his experiences. ... In "The Allegory of the Cave" Plato demonstrated his views of education as, "so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming int...

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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. ... The fact that this allegory applies to any person in any circumstance proves that it is indeed our unchangeable nature to be political. ... Since the primitive clans of the cave man to our modern day sophisticated society, politics has always been the fabric of governance. ...

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The Allegory of the cave can be related to the tripartide state. The condition of mankind can be illustrated by thinking of a group of prisoners in a cave. ... The allegory is an image of human condition from ignorance to enlightenment. ...

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