In bk vii (around line 516), the cave metaphor, Socrates talks about a person who leaves the cave to see the light. He leaves with great reluctance and pain towards the daylight.
Socrates gives his famous Allegory of the Cave in which he describes the process of a philosopher’s ascent to knowledge, the struggles inherent in that process, and the resistance he faces from those who are still a prisoner of their ignorance.
Socrates asks his interlocutor to picture people being tied in a cave and able to see in the walls only the shadows of the people and things passing by the mouth of the cave.
One person is freed, and he proceeds toward daylight with great difficulty. In realizing that the world outside is real, and the shadows are illusory, he returns and tries to convince the other prisoners, but they only dismiss him as having lost his mind.
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