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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/plato-s-allegory-of-the-cave-alex-gendler Twenty four hundred years ago;Plato;one of history’s most famous thinkers;said life is like being chained up in a cave forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall. Beyond sounding quite morbid;what exactly did he mean? Alex Gendler unravels Plato's Allegory of the Cave;found in Book VII of "The Republic." Lesson by Alex Gendler;animation by Stretch Films;Inc.;Education;TED;TED-Ed;TED Ed;TEDEducation;Alex Gendler;Stretch Films;Philosophy;Allegory of the Cave;Reality;Knowledge;The Republic;Justice;Truth;Beauty;Shadow;Language;Subjectivity;Socrates;Democracy;Athens;Theory of Forms;Origin of Knowledge;Nature of Reality;Problem of Representation;Creator;Linguistics