ABSTRACT
In Plato’s allegory of the cave, he described a world in which slaves were chained in a cave facing a back wall. From the moment of their birth, unable to turn their heads, all that the slaves knew of reality was from the shadows cast on the cave wall by a light shining from behind. All the slaves would know of a cup, for example, would be the shadow of the cup cast on the wall. For the slaves, the cup’s shadow would be what was real about the cup, not the object casting the shadow, which would have been incomprehensible to them. Thus, argued, Plato, all that is perceived as reality is a mere shadow of a Greater Reality.
