Platos Allegory of the Cave
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Response to Plato: The Allegory of the Cave
According to Lee A. Jacobus, Plato lived from 420 B.C. until 347 B.C. Raised in an aristocratic family he studied under Socrates and was one of his best students. Plato's allegory is an example showing to live ethically a person must identify what is true, but people can't depend on their perceptions to identify the truth as what is crucial outside sensory perception (314). An allegory is a story in which the elements within the story stand for larger ideas. Plato uses an allegory to explain his concept of forms. In "The Allegory of the Cave," a selection from The Republic, Plato creates a dialogue in which Socrates explains the ways people develop thought processes to the point that they can think in forms...