1. Describe/list the levels of being depicted in the allegory. How might they correspond to stages in our life?
2. Does the use of words such as “chained prisoners,” “shadows,” “fire,” or “light” have implications or suggest ideas beyond their simple definitions?
3. How does Plato seem to define knowledge and its acquisition?
4. What levels of knowledge are described? How might these parallel stages in our life?
5. Why does the man have to be dragged out of the cave?
6. Why does the man return?
7. What is the relationship of the allegory to Plato’s Theory of Forms?
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