Rather than follow your liberator out of the cave, you collectively turn your attention back to the shadows. In Plato’s allegory we’re supposed to conclude that the deluded prisoners are both ...

The other day, I asked one of my friends, a paralegal at a large law firm, about his work life. He replied in one sentence: ...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave by Jan Saenredam, according to Cornelis van Haarlem, 1604. Source: Wikimedia Commons The Allegory of the Cave (circa 380 BCE) Human beings spend all their lives in an ...

How can we understand this political moment better? Let’s go back to Plato and his cave. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” from the Republic, helps us understand populism in the U.S. today ...

There are the obvious examples of movies that call Plato to mind—especially those like The Matrix and The Truman Show that are reworkings of Plato's Myth of the Cave, where it turns out that ...

We have to dive into Plato’s cave. Let’s say you chained up several people from birth so that they were always facing the wall of a cave (kind of a fucked up thing for you to do, but just roll with it ...

Here’s what. Our modern scientific worldview ... we feel toward the piranha. Plato presents himself as this enlightened being in his famous parable of the cave, which I make my freshman ...

Rather than follow your liberator out of the cave, you collectively turn your attention back to the shadows. In Plato’s allegory we’re supposed to conclude that the deluded prisoners are both victims ...

The story about leaving the cave represents how the soul gets closer to understanding these forms—it’s like a picture of ...