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Dark cave allegory

> " In the hands of a thoughtful individual, the Allegory of

> the Cave as a metaphorical description can be the key for

> the combination of the ideas, which a priory exist inside

> the sphere of nous at a chaotic situation."

> http://www.nursing.gr/theory/allegory.html

>

> In The Cave, Plato describes a vision of shackled prisoners

> seated in a dark cave facing the wall. Chained also by their

> necks, the prisoners can only look forward and see only

> shadows. These shadows are produced by men, with shapes of

> objects or men, walking in front of a fire behind the

> prisoners. Plato states that for the prisoners, reality is

> only the mere shadows thrown onto the wall. Another vision

> is releasing a prisoner from his chains, how his movements

> are difficult, his eye adjustment painful and suggestions of

> the effects of returning to the cave. The Cave suggests to

> us that Plato saw most of humanity living in the cave, in

> the dark, and that the vision of knowledge and the

> conversion to that knowledge was salvation from darkness.

> For the prisoners the shadows were their reality as they did

> not know any better. So therefore these prisoners mistake