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GIVE AN ACCOUNT · PLATO’S CAVE

What has he
really learned?

Write an answer. Study the lesson. Try the distinction in a different case.

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A prisoner has been freed. He can identify the people carrying the artifacts and explain how the fire casts their shadows. Has he completed the education represented by Plato’s cave? What has he learned, and what might he still need?

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Based on Michael’s Republic and Heidegger lectures. Read Plato, Republic VII, 514a–521b, in Allan Bloom’s translation. The fictional case is an exercise, not a passage from Plato.