The Myth of the Cave

Author: Miha Kosir

August 3, 2016

In one of Plato’s most well known works - The Republic - we find a short story known as the Myth of the Cave. Socrates asks his listeners to imagine a world under the ground where people live in chains, facing the end wall of a cave. Because they are chained they can’t move or turn around to see the objects behind their backs or the fire which projects shadows onto the wall in front of them. [...]

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