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Allegory of the cave:

- See the shadow, but not the reflection of the real world
- Escape the prisoner <span>&rarr;</span> convince them to go out and see what the real world is
- Talking about shadow (escape to identify real world now instead of the shadow)

### Republic pp. 124-125

State of Ignorance?

State of being in the cave = Ignorance

eyesight <span>&rArr;</span> capacity for learning

Sun = knowledge, intelligible world

shadow <span>&rarr;</span> sensible world

> taints these visions are unwilling to decent to human affair for the <span>&rArr;</span> which desire for allegory (don’t want to go down to the cape)

Fear of the unknown?

Journey to Enlightenment?

Enlightenment as a duty?

Why most of them don’t want to escape at the beginning?
Why only one of them to escape? <span>&rarr;</span> fear of the unknown?

The form?

See also: [[thoughts/university/twenty-three-twenty-four/philo-1aa3/tut/Symposium#Symposium pp. 105-106|Symposium]] Ladders’ of beauty

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