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Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Alex Gendler · TED

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Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of history’s most famous thinkers, said life is like being chained up in a cave forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall. Beyond sounding quite morbid, what exactly did he mean? Alex Gendler unravels Plato's Allegory of the Cave, found in Book VII of "The Republic." [Directed by John R. Dilworth, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by William Hohauser].

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Institution
TED
Department
TED-Ed
Speaker
Alex Gendler
Year
2015
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Psychology and the brain, History, Philosophy, Teaching and learning
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TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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