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Today we watched a video about philosophers and their view on the world. It was Plato's Allegory of the Cave. In the story, there were people chained in dark caves and their only view of the world was through shadows. One day, a chained man broke free and he saw the world as it should be. He realized that the world is full of real things, not just shadows. He goes back to free the others but his eyes had not adjusted to the darkness and he couldn't see the shadows anymore. The prisoners told him his escape made him delirious and he was hallucinating. Plato says that this is what it. feels like to be a philosopher. I think that he means he sees the world in a different way and other people don't want to accept it because everyone thinks their own beliefs are correct.