380 BCE by Plato 427-347 BCE
I'd say the easiest way to understand it as an allegory is to go ahead and make the direct correlations between it and Plato's Allegory of the Cave. In both cases we have a prisoner who becomes unchained and ascends out of the darkness and into the light. In both cases the light represents the truth. Both freed persons also feel an obligation to go back and educate those who remain in the darkness.
it's an allegory
prose allegory is to represent something in another manner
The story is an allegory for man's struggle with nature.
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Plato wrote the allegory of the cave to illustrate his theory of forms and the journey from ignorance to enlightenment. He used the allegory to explain the process of philosophical enlightenment and the struggle to grasp the true nature of reality.
The fire in the cave represents the illusions that keep us in the dark from the truth.
The philosopher who wrote the Myth of the Cave is Plato. It is found in his work "The Republic" and is used as an allegory to explore the nature of reality and the importance of education and enlightenment.
The allegory of the cave appears in Book VII of Plato's "The Republic." In this allegory, Socrates describes a group of prisoners who have been chained inside a cave their whole lives and who mistake shadows cast on the wall for reality.
Yes, Plato wrote about the Allegory of the Cave in his famous work, "The Republic." This allegory is used to explain his theory of forms and the nature of reality.
It is about prisoners in a cave, chained so that they may not see anything but shadows. They have no knowledge of the world outside of the cave.
PHILOSOPHY. especially the republic and the allegory of the cave
Plato wrote it as part of The Republic.
The prisoners in the allegory of the cave believe the shadows on the wall to be reality, as it is the only thing they have ever experienced. They do not realize that the shadows are just a projection of objects behind them and that there is a whole world beyond the cave.