Concept

Allegory of the cave

Overview

allegory by Plato

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Philosophers who discussed Allegory of the cave

• Plato
• Susan Bordo

Related ideas

• Francis Bacon
• Phaedo
• Republic (Plato)
• Idea
• Mathematics
• Geometry
• Plato
• Benjamin Jowett
• Socrates
• Theory of forms
• Ray Bradbury
• The Matrix
• The New York Times
• Form of the Good
• Martin Heidegger
• Physis
• Natural science
• Deductive reasoning
• Direct and indirect realism
• Ancient Greece
• Epistemology
• Education
• Hannah Arendt
• Paideia

Place in the tradition

Part of Essentialism.

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