5/30/2023 0 Comments The republic book 7![]() ![]() ![]() Now imagine that the prisoner ascends from the cave to the upper world. The existence of the shadows depends upon the existence of the statues, not vice versa. But after a period of time, his eyes adjust to the light, and he sees that the statues and the fire are more real than the shadows. His eyes, unaccustomed to the light of the fire, are unable to discern the statues. Suppose a prisoner breaks free from his chains and turns around. They call the shadows – horses, dogs, men, etc. The prisoners speak of these shadows as we speak of our world. The statues cast shadows on the wall in front of the prisoners. Behind the prisoners, puppeteers move statues in front of a fire. ![]() They cannot turn their heads to either side. The prisoners can only see the wall in front of them. Socrates requests that his audience imagine a group of prisoners chained since birth to the bottom of a cave. Book VII of Plato’s Republic contains the most famous metaphor of philosophy – the Allegory of the Cave. ![]()
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