(a) Explain the Analogy of the Cave in Plato’s Republic. [25]

ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE

• In the book 'Republic'
• illusrates his ideas about human knowlegde in relation to reality
• imagine a dark, large cave connected to the outside world by a long passage, in the cave with their backs to the entrance is a row of prisoner in *******,unable to move
• behind them is a bright fire, people move to and bfro behin them to that their shadows are projected on the wall and voices echoes- prisoners only ever experience this so would believe these shadows & echoes to be real
• one day a prisoner is set free- he goes to the outside…