According to Plato’s scenario, if someone escaped the cave, their eyes would be overwhelmed by the sunlight, but once adjusted, they would see the world for what it truly is.

In Plato’s cave, humans watch silhouettes flicker on the wall, unaware that fires just behind them are distorting reality into a shadow world – not unlike the world we find ourselves in today, aided ...

This story of the cave is one of the most important and enduring in philosophy illustrating ideas taught in Plato’s Academy, a school that formed the basis for much of later educational efforts.

Archaeological evidence suggests that symbolism in art, once seen as something that only modern humans were capable of, was produced by earlier hominins.

His book considers the examples of Plato’s Academy (the first western university); the House of Wisdom, also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, from the Islamic Golden Age (c.8th–13th ...