The Light of the Fire in the Cave Is Like the Sun

In the story of the cave, everything has been shifted one level down in order to illustrate what plato has in mind. In our ordinary lives, it's the objects around usn our fellow human beings that we ordinarily take to be real. And then what goes on inside the cave are what you might call knock offs of those objects. So instead of actual human beings in the cave, projecting shadows on to the cave wall, you have dolls who project shadows which are one degree further away from human beings. What plato's trying to tell us is there's more to the world around you than you think. Just like thei the prisoners in the cave don't realize that there's