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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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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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"...is really the most famous allegory or metaphor or analogy in Western thought, okay? By far. Nothing comes second to this. So before I..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central turn: Socrates attacks democracy by exposing the weakness of language and reason, then Plato rescues Socrates by turning the cave into a martyr story, a Christian universe,...
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