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Plato's cave is read as an Asha model: escape illusion, see truth, then return to free others.
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Allegory of the Cave
Plato's cave is read as an Asha model: escape illusion, see truth, then return to free others.
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Plato's image of prisoners mistaking shadows for truth, one person escaping into painful truth, and the returner being rejected or killed.
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The Allegory of the Cave and the crucifixion are treated as one story about a truth teller who reveals reality and is killed by people who cannot bear being told they are wrong.
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The Republic is presented as Plato's most famous work and the Allegory of the Cave as the most famous metaphor in Western thought.
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In the cave, prisoners mistake wall shadows for truth, create language by naming the shadows, and reward those who create the best language.
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The freed prisoner's encounter with sunlight is painful because his eyes are not trained for truth, but he slowly learns to see the beautiful world and the sun as the source of life and truth.
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Truth is described as beyond language: the freed prisoner cannot describe the outside world and later cannot use cave language after becoming accustomed to truth.
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When the freed man returns, prisoners think he is insane and kill him because he insists on revealing the truth.
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The allegory of the cave is said to become the intellectual framework for Christianity.
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Jiang says the Allegory of the Cave will remain memorable because it is both beautiful and embedded in society.
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"...helps us understand Aster better. Okay? He calls it the Allegory of the Cave. So imagine this. Imagine that we are in a cave...."
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"Okay? So we can't ever get up. We can't even move our necks. We only steer at the wall in front of us. Now..."
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"Okay? We see the birds flying in the sky. We see the trees around us. We see the animals. And we're like, this is..."
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"...will have remembered three stories. The first story is Plato's Allegory of the Cave. The second story is the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus...."
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"...it's interesting because it is actually a reimagining of Plato's Allegory of the Cave because Jesus was this truth teller sent by God to..."
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"...The Republic, there's a very famous metaphor and it's called Allegory of the Cave. And this is really the most famous allegory or metaphor..."
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"Okay? Clear so far? All right. So this is the Allegory. Imagine a cave deep under the earth, okay? There's a cave. Now in..."
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"...the truth to them, they kill him, okay? That's the allegory of the cave, okay? And you'll remember this allegory for the rest of..."
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"It's the only reality that exists. And they start naming things that they see and that creates language. And they like to play games..."
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"It's like burning him alive. And so at first, all he's doing is staring at the ground. And so he's seeing reflections in the..."
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"he will, even though he loves where he is, he will still venture back into the cave in order to show people the truth..."
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"...the first philosopher, okay? So that's the power of the allegory of the cave. This image forever transforms the way humanity understands and perceives..."
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