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This revision source provides detailed notes surrounding Plato, which ties into many sub topics and potential essay questions, e.g. the forms, rationalism and the cave allegory
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, Cave simileThe cave allegory
● Prisoners are presented with movie(prisoners since birth)
● All they do is watch it and it’s a shadow of puppets by puppeteer
● One of them escape to the outside world
● experience=confusing and painful
● Sees real world for first time
● When they re enter cave, they’re disorientated
● They are disbelieved,mocked and then killed
An allegory is a story where every element has a link/represents something else
From chapter 7, book 7 of the republic
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