By 
Alex Gendler
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TED-Ed Original

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Twenty four hundred years ago Plato one of history's most famous thinkers said life is like being chained up in a cave forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall. Beyond sounding quite morbid what exactly did he mean? Alex Gendler unravels Plato's Allegory of the Cave found in Book VII of The Republic.

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