Colloquium 2 Commentary on Trott.

In her "Saving the Appearances of Plato's Cave," Dr. Adriel M. Trott argues that "the philosopher's claim to true knowledge always operates within the realm of the cave." In order to probe her claim, I challenge her to make sense of "politics in the cave," namely, the status and practices of two categories of people in the cave: "woke" cave-dwellers (namely, those who recognize shadows as shadows but have not left the cave) and "woke" puppeteers (namely, philosophers ruling within the cave). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]