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Study Questions: Plato's Allegory of the Cave. 1. What does the Allegory of the Cave represent? 2. What are the key elements in the imagery used in the allegory? 3. What are some things the allegory suggests about the process of enlightenment or education?
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Study Questions: Plato's Allegory of the Cave 1. What does the Allegory of the Cave represent? 2. What are the key elements in the imagery used in the allegory? 3. What are some things the allegory suggests about the process of enlightenment or education? 4. What do the imagery of "shackles" and the "cave" suggest about the perspective of the cave dwellers or prisoners? 5. In society today or in your own life, what sorts of things shackle the mind? 6. Compare the perspective of the freed prisoner with the cave prisoners. 7. According to the allegory, lack of clarity or intellectual confusion can occur in two distinct ways or contexts. What are they? 8. According to the allegory, how do cave prisoners get free? What does this suggest about intellectual freedom? http://mscourses.homestead.com/files/103studyquestions1.htm