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Simon Blackburn: Plato's Allegory of the Cave
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Organization: Philosophy Bites
Speaker: Simon Blackburn
Speaker: Simon Blackburn
Plato is one of the world's best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. He was the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, and he wrote in the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. in ancient Greece. Though influenced primarily by Socrates, to the extent that Socrates is usually the main character in many of Plato's writings, he was also influenced by Heraclitus, Parmenides, and the Pythagoreans. The Allegory of the Cave is an allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to illustrate "our nature in its education and want of education".
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