One character in this work claims that poets, like painters, are imitators who produce imitations without knowledge of the truth.
One character in this work claims that poets, like painters, are imitators who produce imitations without knowledge of the truth. A divided line in this book is used to describe the differences between the visible and the intelligible realms, within which the (*) Form of the Good exists. In another analogy in this work, men in chains facing a wall perceive flickering shadows to be the entirety of their reality. The Allegory of the Cave is discussed in, for 10 points, what Platonic dialogue in which Socrates and others discuss justice, the theory of forms, and the ideal state?
One character in this work claims that poets, like painters, are imitators who produce imitations without knowledge of the truth.
The Republic [accept Politeia]