
Plato's Allegory of the Cave
The New Thinkery
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The Cave of Socrates
The cave is like a first statement of political enlightenment or philosophical enlightenment. And that's what glaucon really wants to do, right? That's really well suited to his character. So I don't know where you guys want to go with this episode, but I certainly want to push back a little bit against this sort of enlightenment reading," he says.
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