The story goes on to say that philosophers are like a prisoner who is freed from the cave. This prisoner discovers that the shadows do not make up reality at all, that he can now see the real nature of the world and not just the cast shadows.
The story goes on to say that philosophers are like a prisoner who is freed from the cave. This prisoner discovers that the shadows do not make up reality at all, that he can now see the real nature of the world and not just the cast shadows.