To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - or at BuyMeACoffee - You can find over 2000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - You can get a copy of Plato's Republic here - amzn. Through developing our minds, we become able to grasp these invisible Forms, and the Form of the Good that is the cause of all things.

Instead, education involves rising above a world of material things, which are only shadows or images of the truer realities, the immaterial Forms. Persons in the dialogue: Socrates, Glaucon, Adeimantus, Polemarchus, Cephalus, Thrasymachus. Plato rejects the notion of education as simply providing information or filling students' heads with knowledge. The allegory is a story about what genuine education would be. After habituation, he becomes able to fully use his power of sight to see real things, the heavens, and the sun that illuminates them. One of the prisoners is freed of his chains and brought up into the sunlit world above. Although Socrates devotes just one sentence to the third stage, what he says later in Book VII indicates that this rough, steep path symbolizes the formal. What lesson is Plato’s Socrates attempting to teach with the story 3. The Allegory of the Cave is one of the most famous literary creations in history. In this allegory, prisoners are confined within an underground dwelling, and believe that reality is the images and sounds projected in front of them. Plato, The Allegory of the Cave From The Republic of Plato, Book 7, 514a-521d 1. Specifically it examines his famous Allegory of the Cave set out early in book 7.

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato's work, The Republic, in particular book 7.

The republic book 7