Plato's Allegory of the Cave
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Alex Gendler |
TED-Ed
• March 2015
Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of history’s most famous thinkers, said life is like being chained up in a cave forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall. Beyond sounding quite morbid, what exactly did he mean? Alex Gendler unravels Plato's Allegory of the Cave, found in Book VII of "The Republic." [Directed by John R. Dilworth, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by William Hohauser].