- A cookbook for a successful society
- Socrates is a hero because he doesn't lead by dictation
- Socrates is talking to Glaucon
- Plato is writing this to document Socrates' ideas
- Glaucon is used as a prop for Socrates
- Theme is to determine/show "how far nature is enlightened and unenlightened"
- Individual is the authoritative voice
- The cave is an illustration of a concept we have to deal with
- What we think is real is up to our own interpretation
- Plato thought that everything we saw is just a pale representation of something ideal.
- The prison house is the world of sight
- The power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already
- Three stages: imagination, belief, understanding
- Both agree that the prisoners would rather suffer this newfound fate than to return to their old lives
- The released prisoner returns and describes what he has seen outside but the others just laugh at him because they can't understand
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