Plato's
Cave is anof the sense of self and the fallacy of correctly interpreting the world around us. In
his estimation, it is impossible to truly deduce what is happening outside of our own heads,
because the only thing we really experience is our brain's reconstruction of events. In his
story, a prisoner is tied up in a cave facing away from the entrance, and he begins to create a
story of...
Monday, June 1, 2009
What are similarities between Plato's allegory of the cave and the film The Village?
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