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The desire of prisoners who have never left the cave to kill those who would try to release
them and lead them out of the cave symbolizes:
{ 1 } - the alienation of the uneducated from teachers.
{ 2 } - the repulsiveness of philosophers.
{ 3 } - the fact that conversion of the uneducated is unnecessary.
{ 4 } - the fact that knowledge is virtue.
{ 5 } - the blindness of those who are not prisoners.
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The desire of prisoners who have never left the cave to kill those who would try to release
them and lead them out of the cave symbolizes:
{ 1 } - the alienation of the uneducated from teachers.
{ 2 } - the repulsiveness of philosophers.
{ 3 } - the fact that conversion of the uneducated is unnecessary.
{ 4 } - the fact that knowledge is virtue.
{ 5 } - the blindness of those who are not prisoners.
Teachers are symbolized by those who try to release the prisoners and lead them out of the cave, since teachers, through sharing the vision of the good, free the uneducated from the bondage of ignorance and vice.
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The desire of prisoners who have never left the cave to kill those who would try to release
them and lead them out of the cave symbolizes:
{ 1 } - the alienation of the uneducated from teachers.
{ 2 } - the repulsiveness of philosophers.
{ 3 } - the fact that conversion of the uneducated is unnecessary.
{ 4 } - the fact that knowledge is virtue.
{ 5 } - the blindness of those who are not prisoners.
It is not philosophers that are repulsive to the uneducated; rather their message of communication is frightening to those who have made material things the ultimate reality.
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The desire of prisoners who have never left the cave to kill those who would try to release
them and lead them out of the cave symbolizes:
{ 1 } - the alienation of the uneducated from teachers.
{ 2 } - the repulsiveness of philosophers.
{ 3 } - the fact that conversion of the uneducated is unnecessary.
{ 4 } - the fact that knowledge is virtue.
{ 5 } - the blindness of those who are not prisoners.
If the uneducated had virtue, that is if they did the good, they would have no desire to kill others for doing the good.
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The desire of prisoners who have never left the cave to kill those who would try to release
them and lead them out of the cave symbolizes:
{ 1 } - the alienation of the uneducated from teachers.
{ 2 } - the repulsiveness of philosophers.
{ 3 } - the fact that conversion of the uneducated is unnecessary.
{ 4 } - the fact that knowledge is virtue.
{ 5 } - the blindness of those who are not prisoners.
The desire of the uneducated to kill is an indicator of the fact that ignorance (of the good) is vice.
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The desire of prisoners who have never left the cave to kill those who would try to release
them and lead them out of the cave symbolizes:
{ 1 } - the alienation of the uneducated from teachers.
{ 2 } - the repulsiveness of philosophers.
{ 3 } - the fact that conversion of the uneducated is unnecessary.
{ 4 } - the fact that knowledge is virtue.
{ 5 } - the blindness of those who are not prisoners.
It is the illusion and need for conversion of those who are imprisoned by their preoccupation with material things that leads them to desire to kill the virtuous.
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