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The Intelligent Troglodyte’s Guide to Plato’s Republic, 2016a

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lead them out of the cave?<br />

Where do you suppose Socrates sees himself in this allegory? Is he trapped<br />

down below? Has he broken free? Is he one of those who has come <strong>to</strong><br />

know the form of the good (“not reflections of it in water or some alien<br />

place, but the sun just by itself in its own place”), or does he still have yet <strong>to</strong><br />

achieve this highest level of understanding?

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