Near its end, this text compares a carpenter who builds a bed to the painter who paints an image of a bed.
This text notes that people who know their letters well can read the reflections of letters in water, after an aside about music. At the start of its fifth section, two characters interrupt after muttering "So, shall we let it go then, or what shall we do?" Near its end, this text compares a carpenter who builds a bed to the painter who paints an image of a bed. This text compares our inability to directly access the Good to our blindness upon staring at the sun, just before it likens thought and understanding to the longer two of four sections on a divided line. This text also imagines a space where a guessing-game takes place by firelight as shadows are cast on the wall. For 10 points, name this dialogue whose sixth of ten books includes the allegory of the cave, by Plato.
This text notes that people who know their letters well can read the reflections of letters in water, after an aside about music.
Plato\'s Republic [or Politeia]