Plato Getting the Republic Wrong

In sparta, even the kings are not allowed to change anything important. If one were to try, he would be deposed by the ephors. So there's plato getting the republic wrong. I'll just skip ahead to where you'll say, gat's knowledge wrong. Socrates is the wisest man in the world because he is the only one who knows. He has no knowledge, because genuine knowledge is impossible. We can never know the reality outside, because we only see fleeting, distorted shadows. Each of your eyes is like a dark little cave, one on whose rear wall some stray shadows fall from outside. You spend your whole life at the back of that