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Fluke, John. "Allegory of the Cave." Child Maltreatment 14, no. 1 (2009): 69–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077559508328257.

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Ostergaard, Edvin. "Echoes and Shadows: A Phenomenological Reconsideration of Plato's Cave Allegory." Phenomenology & Practice 13, no. 1 (2019): 20–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/pandpr29372.

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In the cave allegory, Plato illustrates his theory of ideas by showing that the world man senses and tries to understand, actually only is a dim representation of the real world. We know the allegory for its light and shadow; however, there is also sound and echo in the cave. In this article, I discuss whether the narrative of the prisoners in the cave is in tune with an audial experience and whether an allegory led by sound corresponds to the one led by sight. I start with a phenomenological analysis of the cave as a place of sound. After that, I elaborate on the training of attentive listening skills and its ramifications for pedagogical practice. I conclude that there are profound differences between seeing and listening and that sound reveals different aspects of “the real” compared to sight. The significance of Plato’s cave allegory should be evaluated in relation to modern, scientific thought characterised by a visual-spatial language. With support of this allegory, the light-shadow polarity has become the Urbild of represented reality. At the same time, a visually oriented culture of ideas repeatedly confirms Plato’s cave allegory as its central metaphor. Finally, an elaboration on the sounds in the cave proves to be fruitful in an educational sense: The comparison of sound and sight sharpens the differences and complementarities of audial and visual experiences.

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Maiti, Soham. "The Allegory of the Digital Cave." Questions: Philosophy for Young People 18 (2018): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/questions2018185.

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Robinson, Jim. "Teaching the Allegory of the Cave." Teaching Philosophy 15, no. 4 (1992): 329–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/teachphil199215456.

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Garadja, Alexei. "Praestigiae Platonis: the cavernous puppetshow." ΣΧΟΛΗ. Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition 13, no. 1 (2019): 78–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1995-4328-2019-13-1-78-82.

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The paper deals with Plato’s Allegory of the Cave at the beginning of the 7th book of the Republic, focusing on the two lowest stages of the Cave (and the corresponding parts of the Line from the simile in the Sixth book), occupied, respectively, by ‘prisoners and puppeteers’; the identity of these groups is questioned, along the lines set by J. Wilberding in his homonymously entitled article. The puppeteers and their show are examined with regard to the lexical peculiarities of Plato’s text, in particular his usage of thauma and the derived thaumatopoios. The overall ironical, playful character of the Allegory is emphasized, calling for cautious reading beyond its apparent face value. A Russian term vertep, meaning both ‘a cave’ and ‘a portable puppetshow’, may prove itself helpful in approaching the sense Plato actually intended with his Allegory.

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Hosle, Paul. "The Allegory of the Cave, the Ending of the Republic, and the Stages of Moral Enlightenment." Philologus 164, no. 1 (2020): 66–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/phil-2020-0103.

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AbstractThis essay aims to shed new light on the stages of moral enlightenment in the Allegory of the Cave, of which there are three. I focus on the two stages within the cave, represented by eikasia and pistis, and provide a phenomenological description of these two mental states. The second part of the essay argues that there is a structural parallelism between the Allegory of the Cave and the ending of the Republic. The parallelism can be convincingly demonstrated by a purely formal analysis, but additionally it complements and reinforces the original interpretation of the Cave, insofar as the ending of the Republic also mirrors, on the level of content, the previously adduced stages of moral enlightenment.

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Calabreze, Claudio César. "Plato and the cave allegory. An interpretation beginning with verbs of knowledge." ΣΧΟΛΗ. Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition 14, no. 2 (2020): 431–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1995-4328-2020-14-2-431-447.

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In this paper we study the organization of the allegory of the cavern through the investigation of knowledge verbs. First, we briefly follow the interpretations of the allegory of the cave that we consider most significant and our perspective: all are valid provided that each does not deny the others. At our core we analyze the verbs of knowledge: how they relate to each other and what structure of knowledge they establish. In the conclusion, we affirm that the verbs do not present a vision of being as "what is", but as "what is being"; this means, with respect to the allegory, that the relation between being and intelligibility means a pathway of mutual equalization, which the prisoner of the cave goes through; nevertheless, the attempt to reach a comprehensive intelligence of the being requires one more step: to integrate the phenomena to the comprehension of the real thing.

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McGuirk, James N. "Aletheiaand Heidegger's Transitional Readings of Plato's Cave Allegory." Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 39, no. 2 (2008): 167–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2008.11006640.

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Świercz, Piotr. "The Allegory of the Cave and Plato’s Epistemology of Politics." Folia Philosophica 42, no. 2 (2019): 115–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/fp.8520.

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The aim of this article is to analyze Plato’s epistemology of politics in the light of Book VII of the Republic, in which the Allegory of the Cave is introduced. The problem named in the title is presented within the framework of a veritative interpretation of Greek ontology (referencing Charles Kahn’s work) and against the backdrop of Plato’s polemic with sophistry (Protagoras and Gorgias), along with references to the sources of Plato’s inspiration – the Eleatics and Pythagoreans. In my analysis I propose hypotheses concerning certain aspects of the Cave Allegory (e.g. the status of the fire) and present my interpretation of Plato’s politico-philosophical project.

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Snow, Brenda L., and Virginia Fitzsimons. "Message From Plato: Expanding Our Nursing Horizons." Creative Nursing 21, no. 2 (2015): 119–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1078-4535.21.2.119.

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Recognizing human enlightenment is a common theme from the ancient discipline of philosophy. The budding philosophy of nursing continues to find meaning and value in advanced education. This article offers a lesson from the philosopher Plato about not knowing what we don’t know. Plato’s allegory of the cave offers a unique insight for nurses hesitant to return to school for advanced degrees. Those who believe that the endeavor offers little in return may find enlightenment in this two-thousand-year-old allegory. Plato’s cave both encourages the reader to consider the unseen benefits of an educational journey and provides hope about the value of the unknown.

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