Like Socrates, Plato remained convinced there were ... In order to explain this view he wrote the parable of the cave. In it men sit around a fire watching shadows of the outside fall on a cave ...

In Plato’s “Republic,” the Athenian philosopher Socrates describes prisoners who have spent their entire lives manacled in a ...

In 514a–518d Socrates uses a tale of a prisoner’s path to liberation as an allegory representing the educational journey. For an account of the Allegory of the Cave, see below. 2. This and all ...

When Sergio García-Dils de la Vega kissed his girlfriend, Pilar Orche, goodbye at the entrance to Krubera Cave, he promised to return the next day. But after teammate Bernard Tourte bruised his ...

In Plato's allegory, Socrates lays out a scenario in which prisoners, held in a cave since birth, can see only one wall, illuminated from behind them by fire. All they can see are shadows, which they ...

The surface of Mammoth Cave National Park encompasses about 80 square miles. No one knows how big the underside is. More than 365 miles of the five-level cave system have been mapped, and new ...

Certain details about the rescue are only now coming to light After 17 days underground, all the Thai boys and their football coach have safely escaped from the Tham Luang cave complex.

Socrates was born in 469 BC. His father was a stonemason and his mother was a midwife, a profession he would later use to characterize himself, since he would later describe himself as a midwife ...

Socrates regarded rhetoric as a vacuous art ... Our situation is thus akin to that of the sleepers in the cave described in S ...

She compares the cave where Creon buries her alive with the bedroom on a ... Rather than speak in his own voice, the philosopher Plato wrote dialogues starring his teacher, Socrates, who had a lot to ...

Socrates famously claims to lack knowledge or wisdom. This profession of ignorance seems to raise a number of questions. There is the question of what precisely he takes himself to be ignorant of – or ...