Plato's Allegory of the Cave by Jan Saenredam, according to Cornelis van Haarlem, 1604. Source: Wikimedia Commons The Allegory of the Cave (circa 380 BCE) Human beings spend all their lives in an ...

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Imagine being raised from birth as a slave to a reality that never existed. That’s the idea in Book VII of Plato’s “Republic” (380 BC) in a conversation between Glaucon and his teacher Socrates who ...

To Marshall Berman, the long platforms and barrel-vaulted ceilings of the Washington, D.C., subway system feel like a “theater of absurdity and cruelty.” The professor of political theory and urbanism ...

A sentiment echoes across the United States, and it stems from “the people.” Just last week, “the people” elected a president. How can we understand this political moment better? Let’s go back to ...

An excerpt from Plato's Republic, the 'Allegory of the Cave' is a classic commentary on the human condition. It is an example of the philosophical underpinnings of Lovecraft's thought and fiction.