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

Part One of TSZ begins with a long preface that sets the stage for the entire work. The major themes of Nietzsche’s teachings ...

This dilemma echoes Socrates’ assertion that "The unexamined ... Just as Plato’s allegory of the cave suggests that our perceptions are shaped by the tools and constraints of our environment ...

Socrates was famous, perhaps infamous ... To remedy this, we should seek objectivity, to see the world as it really is. The Idols of the Cave reflect our limited, often warped, perspectives; what we ...

Plato’s allegory of the cave is one of the greatest stories of philosophy ... This entire story is an allusion to Socrates‘ effort to help men to reach the truth and their failure in doing so only to ...

The city even executed his teacher Socrates. However, Athenian democracy was not beyond ... In the middle of his argument, he allegorizes that his fellow citizens are like prisoners in a cave, trapped ...

“Alcibiades being taught by Socrates,” Marcello Bacciarelli, 1776-1777. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain Socrates, one of the greatest Greek philosophers, shunned gossip which was a favorite ...

The roadside Three Sisters cave has been known to divers for decades but has been closed in recent years. A newly opened entrance is expected to make it a more attractive site for advanced divers ...