The cave plato how to#

Plato writes, “To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images” (374). They stuck in the state of ignorance where do not have any clue which is wrong or right.

The cave plato how to#

The prisoners are chained to the wall of their minds by the false beliefs and don’t know how to move forward. what we see is not always the truth it could be more complicated than we expect and in order to be successful in life and see the real truth you need to experience things by your own and learn from them. According to the Plato, “the world revealed by our senses is not the real world but only a poor copy of it, and that the real world can only be apprehended intellectually” (Kreis). This is a very important point for prisoners because if they don’t believe in something then they will not be able to change their minds. The philosopher will not be successful to take the fellow prisoners out of the cave since they developed their core beliefs, they will pay attention to evidence that supports their belief. Indeed, the philosopher in the allegory of the cave will be failed to convince the fellow prisoners to leave the cave because prisoners have developed their core beliefs, they will pay attention to any evidence that supports their beliefs and, they are not educated enough to understand what the truth is.

An Enlightened prisoner (philosopher) tries to explain the real world and his experience about the outside of the cave however, fellow prisoners do not trust him since he is the only one know what truth is. He decided to return to the cave and inform the other prisoners his finding. Once he discovered the world outside of the cave, he has begun to understand the new world and realized that his prior view of the reality was wrong. One day one of the prisoners resist and left the cave. Behind their heads are fire and a sidewalk between them. They haven’t seen the world outside of the cave since they were born.

Plato represents group of the people chained in a cave and only the wall in front of them is visible. Kwa Essay One Final Draft Epilogue to Plato’s Cave To start, what would your life be like if you were stuck in a world where you could not see the end? Would you be content with just being alive? This question reminds me Plato’s “the allegory of the cave”.