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.
What do the shadows on the wall versus the real objects symbolize in Plato's theory of forms?
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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
