WORLD HISTORY

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ANCIENT GREECE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
According to Plato, the escaped prisoners who leave the cave are like ____
A
philosophers who are pursuing truth and knowledge
B
artists who represent the shadows in a much closer way than we see reality
C
students who study mathematics
D
students who chose not to study
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -What Does The Allegory of the Cave Mean? Plato uses the cave as a symbolic representation of how human beings live in the world, contrasting reality versus our interpretation of it. These two ideas reflect the two worlds in the story: the world inside the cave, and the world outside.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato’s Cave, is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare “the effect of education () and the lack of it on our nature".

Detailed explanation-3: -Plato’s Allegory of the cave accounts for his theory of knowledge by showing how leaving ignorance turns perception into true belief. Plato’s theory of knowledge explains that perceptions of things are like the shadows on the cave wall and while the prisoners know a name for the thing, what they see is not true belief.

Detailed explanation-4: -The prisoners in the cave, Plato explains, are only acquainted with shadows and echoes. 15. When people leave the cave, everything will immediately become clear to them.

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