 Avempace does not talk about Ideas but intelligibles and he groups the prisoners in Plato’s allegory with the common people, while he distinguishes two categories among those who have gone out of the cavern: The theoreticians (naẓariyyin, philosophers) and the blessed (suʻada’). For Plato, those who have gone out of the cavern are the educated citizens who master the art of dialectic, but Avempace is not satisfied with an indirect approach to the last intelligence and wants to reach and acquire the absolute intelligibles, free of any relation to the material intellects and free of any spiritual form (particular or universal): it is the third and final stage that has no equivalence in Plato’s two categories of men.