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Allegory of the Cave
The Allegory of the Cave is Plato's famous image in Book VII of the Republic, depicting prisoners chained in a cave who mistake shadows for reality, illustrating the ascent of the soul from ignorance to knowledge of the Forms.
Periagoge
Periagoge is the Greek term for the turning or reorientation of the soul, which Plato uses to describe genuine education as a process of redirecting the soul's innate capacity for knowledge away from the sensible world toward the intelligible world of the Forms.