Plato,
The Symposium
A little background: Plato is a student of Socrates – one of
the main speakers here. In all of the dialogues Plato wrote, he uses Socrates
as his main speaker.
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Global Lit: Plato's Cave: Notes
Plato,
The Cave
This is a very brief selection from Plato’s massive work, The Republic, in which he outlines his
description of how we might build a perfect (Utopian) society. Here, in the section known as The Cave, he is
describing the condition most people live in, and what it takes to bring us out
of it, into the world of true knowledge / wisdom.
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