An important allegory throughout the history of philosophy is Plato’s allegory of the cave. There are remarkable similarities between this allegory and an allegory from Islamic philosophy—that of western exile (al-ghurba al-gharbiyya) proposed by Suhrawardī. This paper seeks to consider fundamental components and issues within the two allegories, including the issue of the soul as the ...

A fifth-century handbook on Scripture and its interpretation, Adrian’s Isagōgē in sacras scripturas, is the only known extant introductio Greek which represents Antiochean exegetical tradition. This treatise, available two recensions, largely an explanation of stylistic idiosyncrasies Scripture’s God-talk. Although Adrian acknowledges fact that uses allegory to say various things (i.e., composi...

If ever a literary genre were made for consumer research, that is allegory. The word comes from the Ancient Greek allegoreo, meaning to speak of other in marketplace. Building on pioneering research Barbara B. Stern, this article considers character and characteristics allegorical storytelling. It does so by means an empirical study richly storied apparel brand, Hollister (HCo), whose sudden ri...

understanding allegories, helps us to give a clear and accepted interpretation of complex and complicated thoughts, and this is said to be a cultural need. the purpose of this research is to find and recognize the allegories used by meibodi in his mystic interpretation of kashf-ol-asraar. the results of the study show that different kinds of allegories are used in this interpretation; and this ...

To reach its potential wildlife management needs a coherent purpose. Traditional divisions between science, society, and nature, however, create conflicts between responsibility to science, the public, and nature. These divisions emerged as early as Plato’s (400 BC) allegory of the cave. In Plato’s allegory human society existed inside a cave formed by its own delusions, and a philosopher or sc...

Maybe the first inverse problem presented in the history of the occidental thought is described in the book Republic, written by Plato. The problem is posed in the Book VII in a text known as the Allegory of the Cave. That text motivated us to formulate a simple mathematical model that simulates, in a sense, the situation of the persons described in that problem.