Plato’s Allegory of the Cave [TED-Ed]
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 ?
This video unravels Plato's Allegory of the Cave, found in Book VII of The Republic.