Plato's Cave English Subtitles

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let me show in a parable

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to what extent our nature is enlightened

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or unenlightened

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envision human figures living in an underground cave

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with a long entrance along the whole width of the cave

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here they've been since their childhood 
and have had their legs and necks chained,

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so that they cannot move and only see before them

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being prevented by the chains from turning their heads around

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Above and behind them
a fire is blazing in the distance

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