What truths about the human condition is Plato’s Myth of the Cave meant to convey?

How The Matrix assumes a closed world (a world without “Platonic” transcendence, or reference to a divinity outside and beyond it) and how that very closure entails the split between appearance and reality, the Matrix (within the movie) and the “desert of the real.”
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comparing the moral philosophy and moral anthropology of Plato and Aristotle.
July 28, 2019

What truths about the human condition is Plato’s Myth of the Cave meant to convey?

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What truths about the human condition is Plato’s Myth of the Cave meant to convey? 150 words for this question alone. Do you think that being self-interested is a bad thing? If so, Why or why not? another 150 words for this question.Please make sure each question has its own paragraph