Plato’s Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler
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Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of
history’s most famous thinkers, said life is like being chained up in a
cave forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall. Beyond
sounding quite morbid, what exactly did he mean? Alex Gendler
unravels Plato's Allegory of the Cave, found in Book VII of The Republic.
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- Educator
- Alex Gendler
- Director
- John R. Dilworth
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- Pilar Newton
- Sound Designer
- William Hohauser
- Script Editor
- Addison Anderson
