![]() ![]() ![]() The prisoners perceive the shadows and echoes as reality. ![]() The prisoners perceive only shadows of the people and things passing on the walkway the prisoners hear echoes of the talk coming from the shadows. A fire is burning behind the prisoners between the fire and the arrested prisoners, there is a walkway where people walk and talk and carry objects. They can see only the wall of the Cave in front of them. There are prisoners in the Cave who have been chained there since their childhood they are chained to the ground and chained by their heads. Socrates is here still trying to clarify the four levels of intellect, the two levels of belief, and the two levels of knowledge.įor this allegory, we are to imagine an underground Cave, whose entrance/exit leads upward to daylight. Having presented us with the Analogy of the Sun and the Analogy of the Line, Socrates now in the conversation introduces the Allegory of the Cave. ![]()
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