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In the cave analogy, disturbed vision does not symbolize:
{ 1 } - an effect of the educated person's involvement in the material world.
{ 2 } - the confusion of beginning education.
{ 3 } - lack of intelligence in the uneducated.
{ 4 } - the confusion of sensation for the educated.
{ 5 } - an early result of conversion.
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In the cave analogy, disturbed vision does not symbolize:
{ 1 } - an effect of the educated person's involvement in the material world.
{ 2 } - the confusion of beginning education.
{ 3 } - lack of intelligence in the uneducated.
{ 4 } - the confusion of sensation for the educated.
{ 5 } - an early result of conversion.
Involvement with sensation for those who have learned how to share at first has the effect of their inability to value sense objects. This is symbolized by the person who comes into the cave from the brighter outside being unable to distinguish the shadows of images from one another. See page 66.
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In the cave analogy, disturbed vision does not symbolize:
{ 1 } - an effect of the educated person's involvement in the material world.
{ 2 } - the confusion of beginning education.
{ 3 } - lack of intelligence in the uneducated.
{ 4 } - the confusion of sensation for the educated.
{ 5 } - an early result of conversion.
Those who are accustomed to looking at shadows of images have difficulty distinguishing brighter things from one another, just as those who are preoccupied with material things have difficulty defining terms and thus distinguishing ideas from one another.
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In the cave analogy, disturbed vision does not symbolize:
{ 1 } - an effect of the educated person's involvement in the material world.
{ 2 } - the confusion of beginning education.
{ 3 } - lack of intelligence in the uneducated.
{ 4 } - the confusion of sensation for the educated.
{ 5 } - an early result of conversion.
It is not intelligence that is lacking in the uneducated, but they are rather preoccupied with using it on the wrong things. This misorientation of intelligence is symbolized by the prisoners looking at the shadows of images and their need to be turned around to see brighter things.
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In the cave analogy, disturbed vision does not symbolize:
{ 1 } - an effect of the educated person's involvement in the material world.
{ 2 } - the confusion of beginning education.
{ 3 } - lack of intelligence in the uneducated.
{ 4 } - the confusion of sensation for the educated.
{ 5 } - an early result of conversion.
Those who are accustomed to looking at brighter things have difficulty distinguishing shadows of images from one another, just as those who are preoccupied with ideas, sharing, have difficulty valuing material things for themselves.
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In the cave analogy, disturbed vision does not symbolize:
{ 1 } - an effect of the educated person's involvement in the material world.
{ 2 } - the confusion of beginning education.
{ 3 } - lack of intelligence in the uneducated.
{ 4 } - the confusion of sensation for the educated.
{ 5 } - an early result of conversion.
Turning from material things to defining terms causes a feeling of confusion for the one being educated. This is symbolized by the disturbed vision of the one turned around in the cave towards the light.
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