Allegory of the Cave**:
- In one of the most fans, Plato describes an allegory of a cave, which symbolizes the journey from ignorance to enlightenment.
- Prisoners in the cave represent those who are trapped in the material world, while those who escape represent the philosopher who seeks knowledge and truth
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Many consider Plato as the most important philosopher who ever lived. He is known as the father of idealism. His ideas were elitist, with the philosopher king the ideal ruler.
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Plato And The Captivity Of Ignorance
A Matrix-like scenario was discussed in a book by Plato, Republic, in which he imagined all human life akin to a group of prisoners who have lived their entire lives inside the walls of their prison, with the only experience of reality being the shadows on that wall.
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3 Modes Of Material Nature
Chapter 7 Text 13
Lord Krishna said
"Deluded by the three modes [goodness, passion and ignorance], the whole world does not know Me who am above the modes and inexhaustible"
The whole world is enchanted by three modes of material nature...
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