Platos Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler
Platos Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler with tags ted, ted-ed, ted ed, tededucation, alex gendler, stretch films, plato, philosophy, allegory of the cave, reality, knowledge, the republic, justice, truth, beauty, shadow, language, subjectivity, socrates, democracy, athens, theory of forms, origin of knowledge, nature of reality, problem of representation, creator, linguistics
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/plato-s-allegory-of-the-cave-alex-gendlerTwenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of historys most famous thinkers, said life is like being chained up in a cave forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall. Beyond sounding quite morbid, what exactly did he mean? Alex Gendler unravels Plato's Allegory of the Cave, found in Book VII of "The Republic." Lesson by Alex Gendler, animation by Stretch Films, Inc.
