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Plato's allegory of the cave by Jan Saenredam, according to Cornelis van Haarlem, 1604, Albertina, Vienna. Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature".
Allegory of the cave; Platonism; Ratha Kalpana; Id, ego, and super-ego; Jonathan Haidt; Allegorical interpretations of Plato; Katha Upanishad; The Theory of Forms; Hyperuranion; Pharmakon; Divine Madness in Ancient Greece and Rome: theia mania; Plato's unwritten doctrines, for the Phaedrus, criticism of writing, and Plato's esotericism
Allegory of the Cave; Usage on en.wikiversity.org Poetry/Practice/Universal Language of Absolutes/Appendix; Poetry/Practice/Universal Language of Absolutes/Nature; Usage on eo.wikipedia.org Parabolo de la kaverno; Usage on es.wikipedia.org Alegoría; Platón; Usage on fa.wikipedia.org تمثیل غار; Usage on fi.wikipedia.org Luolavertaus
Porphyry leaves open whether the cave actually existed or was an invention by Homer, but in either case stresses its significance as an allegory. He associates the cave motif with Plato's allegory of the cave and the Mithraeum (the cave sacred to adherents of the Roman mystery religion centered on the god Mithras) and regards it as a symbol for ...
In this allegory, Plato describes a group of people who have lived chained in a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall (514a–b). The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows, using language to identify their world (514c–515a).
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