Plato's Allegory of the Cave
The New Thinkery
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The Shadows of Socratic Philosophy
The book is a political examination of people's moral and political opinion. Like we by nature, we inhabit these cave-like dwellings, which give us conventional accounts of what the real world is like. All of our, all of our light is supplied by some sort of poets or something like this. And so it's trying to get people to see that the thing that they think is real is not real.
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