Jordan Peele, Education, and Plato’s Allegory of The Cave

Understand then, that it is the same with the soul, thus: when it settles itself firmly in that region in which truth and real being brightly shine, it understands and knows it and appears to have reason; but when it has nothing to rest on but that which is mingled with darkness — that which becomes and perishes, it opines, it grows dim-sighted, changing opinions up and down, and is like something without reason. (‘The Republic, VI: 508d; trans. W. H. D. Rouse)I’m

Synopsis of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

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“Plato likens people untutored in the Theory of Forms to prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn their heads. All they can see is the wall of the…