Picture No | 10020109 |
Date | early 4th century BC |
Description | Plato's Cave Allegory |
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In Plato's Republic Socrates likens mankind to prisoners in a cave who see only the shadows of reality, and the philosophers to those who have been given a glimpse of it
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Source | Chevignard, in 'Magasin Pittoresque' July 1855, page 217 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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