Four divisions in the soul a. Respond to the maximum b. Understanding per second c. Faith or belief in the thirdd. Perception of shadows8. Allegory of the cave, how enlightened or unenlightened our nature is. I. The cave: represents individuals who believe that what we see and what we hear is true knowledge (empirical evidence), trapped in a cave of misunderstanding. A. The prisoners (three) are tied to the rocks; everything is tied up so they can only see the stone wall in front of them. B. They have been in the cave since their existence and have never come out c. There is a fire behind the prisoners which throws a shower in front of them. Objects are transported and placed behind them to cast shadows. 9. The shadows (the truth would be nothing other than the shadows of the images) II. The perception of those who think and believe that empirical evidence guarantees knowledge. A. The prisoners believe that the shadows cast by the objects were “real” because they have never seen anything else. B. Anything moving through the fire would cast a shadow10. Plato suggests that the prisoners would play a game and try to guess which shadows would appear next and which next. If one of them had hosted correctly, the other would praise him by saying that he was a