The Allegory of the Cave3 Plato - The Allegory of the Cave The Allegory of the Cave Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms. The allegory of the cave is supposed to explain this. In the allegory, Plato likens people untutored in the Theory of Forms to prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn their heads. All they can see is.. 2015. 11. 29. PLATO - The Allegory of the Cave PLATO The Allegory of the Cave, P 1-14: Imagine prisoners living since childhood in an underground den, chained so they cannot move or see anywhere but straight ahead. Behind them is a fire that casts shadows on the cave wall in front of the prisoners as people carry various objects past the fire. The prisoners, seeing nothing but shadows, assume the shadows are all there is to reality. P 15-18.. 2005. 2. 19. Plato, The Allegory of the Cave Plato, The Allegory of the Cave [Socrates] And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: --Behold! human beings living in a underground cave, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the cave; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them.. 2005. 2. 4. 이전 1 다음