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 ====== Plato: Metaphor and Myth ======
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+==== Authored by Frank Redmond, 2005 ====
 In the Republic, Plato consistently, through the use of metaphor and myth, explicates a worldview in which there are two parallel, yet untouching, planes of being: the illusory and the real. The reason why Plato uses these rhetorical tropes to explicate his worldview is clear - Plato recognizes the fact that the metaphysical realm of being can only be discussed through metaphor and myth. Human language is inadequate; language has no direct access to the "real". But, for all this linguistic ambguity surrounding the "real", Plato surely knows how one goes about knowing this realm of being. For Plato, the way to grasp this "real" world is to live a life devoted to contemplation and justice.