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Plato's Parable Of The Cave

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The purpose of Plato's parable of the Cave is to give a perception into his view of knowledge. There are a lot of people who are not only comfortable in their ignorance but are aggressive to anyone who pinpoints them out. According to Plato "knowledge is perceiving things in different ways". All individuals are capable to learn, but not everyone has the passion to learn. I can relate Plato's epistemology theory of Forms and Truth in comparison with the parable of the Cave, because a Form is an idea about what a thing is. Therefore the prisoners chained in the cave, all perceives an idea of what the physical world is. But every so often, when one of the prisoners gets free from the shackles they would go outside the cave, and that is when they
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