I think Plato's difficulty in writing the metaphor of the cave is that he thinks he is the one who pulls a prisoner out of the cave, and for the public to break their normal cognition. And it's likely to make most of it unacceptable. Through this fable Plato vividly shows his unique and profound thinking about our human situation. It also shows that his own epistemological view, the world we see and feel, is not real. After all these appearances, the real prototype is hidden. Plato called it "form". To realize this "form", that is, the real world, only relies on rational reasoning
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