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Analysis of Plato's ‘The Simile of The Cave’
Many literary works of the past have been very accurate to our view of society today. None of these works, however describes our view of today’s society as closely as Plato’s “Simile of the Cave”. In this work, ....
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.... this by suggesting that one of these men is freed and ventures out of the cave into the light, or the world above, and sees the sun, symbolizing “the form of the good”. Plato’s object in this work was not of personal enlightenment; he had the sense to understand that where communication was lacking, such as those prisoners still locked in the cave. The wise, represented by the freed prisoner, should distribute their knowledge to others who were lacking that information. In today’s society, however, this idea is usually not practiced. In terms of our gover ....
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