Craft your post in which you explain how the trial of Socrates and the “Allegory of the Cave” are both examinations of the same idea: that the “unexamined life is not worth living.”
Allegory of the Cave Description The “Allegory of the Cave” is a famous section of Plato’s dialogue Republic. It’s called an allegory because nearly every aspect of the story is deeply symbolic. The Sun, for example, represents the Form of the Good (and among later Christian thinkers, it represents God). But, as you saw from […]