Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Socrates mocks that argument in book seven of the Republic. He says, you dummies, I get that the heavens are really beautiful and inspire awe. But if you mistake that for what they really are, for the real truth behind this physical matter, then your resignation is could be exactly. That's why the allegory of the cave is just that an allegory. You know, you're not supposed to think that exiting the cave and seeing the heavens is equivalent to understanding the form of the good. No, it's,. it's, it's,It's a metaphor for what it might be like to understand the form ofthe good. And there's a battle throughout plat