{"philosopher":{"topicalDescription":null,"wikiTitle":"Plato","libriVoxIDs":["2707","8355","3485","5566","8603","7237"],"birthDate":null,"iepLink":"https:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/plato\/","name":"Plato","interests":"Rhetoric, Art, Literature, Epistemology, Justice, Virtue, Politics, Education, Family, Militarism","life":"(c.427-c.347 BCE)","username":"@plato","birthYear":"427 BC","deathYear":"347 BC","school":"Platonism","speLink":"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/plato\/","id":"4B7B8E3A-A01C-41B5-89B7-F6464C64A104","deathDate":null,"hasEBooks":true},"thumbnailImages":{"thumbnail300x300":"\/Images\/allegoryOfTheCave@2x.png","thumbnail450x450":"\/Images\/allegoryOfTheCave@3x.png","thumbnail150x150":"\/Images\/allegoryOfTheCave.png"},"arFile":"\/ARObjects\/allegoryOfTheCave.usdz","type":"object","description":"Plato has Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them, and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality.","wikiTitle":"Allegory of the Cave","id":"9752E94A-AA2A-4302-8594-05088A369C1B","name":"Allegory of the Cave"}