Seán Radcliffe asks, has Plato’s Allegory of the Cave been warning us of social media for 2,400 years? The ‘Allegory of the Cave’ is a Socratic argument recorded by the Greek philosopher Plato, a ...
In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, it is suggested that a state flourishes best when its leaders reluctantly govern, prioritizing stability. In contrast, a state where leaders are overly eager to wield ...
Of all the sumptuously realised analogies presented by Greek philosopher Plato, none has stuck in the public imagination quite like the allegory of the cave. In it, a group of manacled people can ...