Plato made up an enduring story about why philosophy matters based on an allegory about a cave…
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The part everyone gets wrong…
Chained in a cave your whole life, you d take the shadows on the wall for the whole of reality — and Plato s 2,400-year-old allegory says that s most of us. This is the full story of the Allegory of the Cave from Book VII of the Republic: the prisoners and the fire, the brutal climb into the sunlight, the Forms and the Good — …
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