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" You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, I replied ; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave? "
The Classical Moralists: Selections Illustrating Ethics from Socrates to ... - Page 45
edited by - 1909 - 797 pages
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A History of the Preparation of the World for Christ

David Riddle Breed - 1891 - 450 pages
...them from turning their heads. Above and behind them the light of a fire is blazing at a distance. They see only their own shadows or the shadows of one another which the fire throws on the opposite side of the wall." The escape from this condition was to be found in the study of philosophy. (32)...
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Dialogues of Plato, Volume 2

Plato - 1899 - 634 pages
...you would expect, are talking, - r and some of them are silent ? That is a strange image, he said, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, I...shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the tire throws on the opposite wall of the cave ? True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows...
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Philosophy and Life: And Other Essays

John Henry Muirhead - 1902 - 208 pages
...marionette players have before them, over which they show the puppets. That is a strange image, he said, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, I...shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads 1 And of the objects which are being carried in like manner they would only see the shadows? Yes, he...
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The Republic of Plato, Volume 2

Plato - 1908 - 458 pages
...and figures of animals 515 made of wood and stone and various materials, which appear over the wall? Some of them are talking, others silent. You have...True, he said ; how could they see anything but the B shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads ? And of the objects which are being carried...
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Poetry, Volume 16

Harriet Monroe - 1920 - 400 pages
...which marionette players have before them, over which they show the puppets . . . ." but the prisoners "see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one...the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave." It is the cave of Plato's imagining, rather than the exaggerations of the cinema, that Sassoon's Picture-show...
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Public Opinion

Walter Lippmann - 1922 - 448 pages
...them are silent ? This is a strange image, he said, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, 1 replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the...which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the case? True, he said: how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move...
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The Survival Value of Christianity

John Moffatt Mecklin - 1926 - 280 pages
...from the past. Plato, in his immortal allegory of the cave, describes its inmates as chained so that "they see only their own shadows or the shadows of one another which the fire throws upon the opposite wall of the cave." This illustrates one of the most universal and yet least realized...
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Speculum of the Other Woman

Luce Irigaray - 1985 - 370 pages
...hystera, as you might have expected — will deceptively, covertly, bring up the forgotten dilemma. "You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners," he says. Here the "image" previously described is rcframed as image. The summary, somewhat in the manner...
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Slow Exposures

John Wheatcroft - 1986 - 186 pages
...was too honest not to own his inability to imagine any such departing splendor for himself. THE HITCH They see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another. —Plato, The Republic, Book VII ± OR THREE YEARS. ONE MONTH AND TWENTY SEVEN DAYS LOCKE'S life, not...
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Readings in Western Religious Thought: The ancient world

Patrick Reid - 1987 - 412 pages
...statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials, which appear over the wall? Some of them are talking, others silent. You have...one another, which the fire throws on the opposite side of the cave? True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed...
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