1. Plato The Philosopher

2. Plato Plato – like Socrates – was a rationalist Plato’s philosophical project was different than that of Socrates. Plato was a dualist. Plato was an idealist – think IDEA-list Plato's World of Ideas (or theory of ideas).

4. Plato Plato's Myth of the Cave – also called The Allegory of the Cave An allegory is a kind of story in which what happens is being compared to something else that is An Allegory is like an analogy – an extended one

6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69F7GhASOdM

8. The Allegory of the Cave Would you want to be released from the cave? Why or why not? What is like the cave in our world? How is the way you understand the world, your ideas and beliefs, shaped by the actions of others? Who has the power to shape your ideas and beliefs? In what ways is this good and in what ways is it not so good? Are there things you know to be true? What are they, and how do you know them?