However , Plato is careful to define these shadows more as personal confinement , rather than an outside entity that places these shadows around the cave to blockade an individual from the sun . As one walks out of the cave and sees the beaming sunlight , the sense of warmth can be explained as enlightenment . One can assume that the sunlight represents truth and knowledge , and that the enlightenment is clearly willed by the individual , rather than by some outside source (558d . This...











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