Plato — Understanding His Philosophies and the Allegory of the Cave
5 min readSep 28, 2019
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The allegory of the cave is one of the most famous dialogues from Plato, and has had a major influence on Western philosophy. It is a passage from Platos The Republic, and is about the nature of philosophical nature at the time. But before we try to understand it, who truly was Plato?
