Plato’s Cave Allegory and Its Symbolic Elements Plato’s cave allegory is a metaphor that examines human perception, knowledge, and enlightenment within his book The Republic .

In his famous allegory of the cave, Plato laid the foundation for cognitive psychology by describing intrapsychic conflict and concluding that because our senses can deceive us, reasoning is our ...

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 ...