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You think of the leader as an older and wiser person. The know more and have a bigger perspective than us... the prisoners.

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The way you perceive your knowledge to an understanding you don't know everything.

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Your perception is your reality.

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A wise leader is needed to listen and experience different perspectives of life in order to create a just society.

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Someone who isn't as eager for power as they are for the good of society.

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His knowledge is what makes him a leader because he tries to share it with his fellow prisoners and doesn't abuse his power.

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A good leader helps his people even if they're going to kill him.

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Plato suggests that a good leader is wise and has the ability to see through the deceptive appearances of things in the physical world of experience.

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A leader is someone who finds true reality and goes back to help the others that don't know what reality is.

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Your perception is based on the knowledge you have about your reality.

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The way you perceive reality based off of your perceptions and other people's perceptions.

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as you see knowledge it becomes understanding

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Some people may have a more narrow point of view and cannot really see what reality truly is.

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You only know what you have seen and experienced.

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They represent close-minded people that don't want to change.

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Blindness symbolizes how hard it was to see the true reality

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The fire shows the false hood of reality since it is used to create the prisoners idea of a true reality.

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The prisoners are symbols of the blind followers to a leader or religion and having no outside perspective.

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The sun is reality.

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The shadows are the manipulated reality of which the prisoners believe.

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What makes a wise, just leader according to Plato?

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What does Plato imply about true knowledge and perception?

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What is one of the symbols that stood out to your group; what do you feel that symbol represents?