In the seventh book from "The republic" (514 b - 520 a), Plato illustrates "our nature in its education and want of education", trought the Allegory of the Cave. This relates to the idea of forms as people struggle to see the reality beyond illusion.
After "returning from divine contemplations to human evils", a man "is graceless and looks quite ridiculous when – with his sight still dim and before he has gotten sufficiently accustomed to the surrounding darkness – he is compelled in courtrooms or elsewhere to contend about the shadows of justice or the representations of which they are the shadows, and to dispute about the way these things are understood by men who have never seen justice itself?" (517d-e)
Thanks for the post. There's an interesting conception of this subject in oil paint at http://dominiquemillar.com/the-allegory-of-the-cave/
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