"The Allegory of the Cave" was written by Plato, one of the greatest philosophers in history. ... To make understand an easy realism, Plato showed all of the elements and people as symbols or metaphors to indicate a difference among educated and uneducated persons. 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. ... 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 ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1092
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Socrates quest for justice was written in the form of a dialogue by his student Plato, in Plato's Republic. ... In Plato's ideal society justice ruled. ... 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 four reforms that Plato feels are needed are: The Equality of Women- Plato realizes that the most knowledgible person could possibly be a woman. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Socrates was a sort of bridge to Plato and Aristotle. ... This is a very important idea as Plato continues with the Republic. Plato writes of the analogy of the line and the cave. ... By imagination, Plato means shadows and reflections. ... Just as Plato was a student of Socrates, Aristotle was a student of Plato. ...

• Word Count: 726
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• Grade Level: High School