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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Meet The Creators
- Educator Alex Gendler
- Director John R. Dilworth
- Animator Pilar Newton
- Sound Designer William Hohauser
- Script Editor Addison Anderson
- Narrator Addison Anderson
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