Allegory Of The Cave

Education is the key to success. In today’s society we are most of the times blinded from the true brilliance that a quality education can have on our lives. Instead, through media and entertainment we are bombarded with ignorance leading us to criticize what we do not understand. In turn, we could care less because we find more comfort in our ignorance than a sound understanding of the truth. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the prisoners sit in a cave, chained down, and watch images cast on the wall in the front of them. They accept these views as reality and are unable to fully grasp their overall situation. At some point a prisoner is set free and forced to see the situation inside the ...

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one that is marked by reason. He then goes back to set free the other prisoners so that they too may have an understanding of reality. However, some of the prisoners refuse stating this is the only way of life they know. The shadows on the wall are what the prisoner’s mistake for truth, reality, here in this world it is the actual ideas that the men advance on us. Going to war is a shadow we mistake for truth, and justice. Today some modern ideas of justice maybe “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.” Today it is the unknown that we fear and resist change on the basis of self discovery. We rarely consider looking at things from a different point of view and as mentioned before we criticize what we do not know.
Today, though we escape from the plane of idea or rather we stay in our place and do not question ideas that are given. We are like the prisoners in Plato’s allegory of the cave because we tend to perceive the world through our imperfect eye. We accept this illusion of ...

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Added: 4/17/2011 01:38:43 AM
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