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Mid-Term: Part I Essay Prompt on Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Mid-Term: Part I Essay Prompt on Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Q Prompt and Directions: Read "Allegory of the Cave" and post an essay interpreting Plato's Allegory in regard to the statement above and applying this to your own understanding of what we speak of as "Knowledge", "Truth", "Perception", "Illusion", and "Reality". Text of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" (Links to an external site.) Video: Allegory of the Cave

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Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave is one of the most controversial yet famous philosophical texts widely quoted in Literature to date. Here, the prisoner fails to understand or adjust to this new space around him in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. The prisoner had to acknowledge his incompetence before he can even begin to learn and comprehend the intricacies of the human situation. In The Allegory of the Cave, the prisoner’s ignorance of the enlightenment