Ignorance In Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

Plato's message is for us to continue to explore and investigate and not get stuck with our five senses because our five senses or forms limit humans and are only useful to some extent. Also for us to learn from mistakes, learn about nature, humans, purpose of life, etc. so we as humans can improve our lives and become more successful. He wants us to be philosophers, to talk and explain with one another, but to be careful to who we explain. In a way, he says to receive answers for our own benefit and only help our self to avoid ending like the Freed

On the surface of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” it is just a simple piece, but the main purpose of the piece is to explain people living in a world of face value and having individuals break free from the main idea to create a new sense of what the world is truly about. In here, Plato uses the writing style of allegory to encompass the use of imagery and symbolism to explain his purpose. He also uses very clever dialogue with constant repetition to represent a bigger idea about the philosophy with chained up people living in a cave of shadows.

The flaw that Plato speaks about is trusting as real, what one sees - believing absolutely that what one sees is true. In The Allegory of the Cave, the slaves in the caves know that the shadows, thrown on the wall by the fire behind them, are real. If they were to

The second stage of the Allegory of the Cave consists of the process leading up to enlightenment. Plato represents the difficulties of leaving a comfortable reality where you are content with your own ideas by comparing it to the harshness of a flickering flame. The bright light of the fire that you are newly being exposed to after being held in the dark for so long can be painful, and hard to cope with or understand. The journey from ignorance to a better understanding can be confusing. As humans, we naturally don’t want to be forced to question our own ideas and the things we know to be true, but it is this uncomfortable, driving force that can lead us out of our own contentment and onto the path of better understanding. Plato so eloquently describes this challenging journey by comparing it to that of a prisoner being forced to visually take in all of this new information that he had not previously been exposed to. It takes a great deal of strength to be able to challenge the world around you and develop your own ideas, rather than taking everything around you in on a surface value.

Plato is clear that not all men are prepared to decline the comfort provided by ignorance to invite the unknown. He does not “present a doctrine” as much as he “prepares the way for philosophizing” (Bloom XXI). It requires man to adopt an outlook perpetually critical of seemingly objective experiences and knowledge. Doing so, according to the “Allegory” means questioning your peers’ reality and willingly declining the comfort of simplicity and familiarly for the ability to experience reality through thought. It means ditching the safety of the cave’s darkness for the chance to experience the brilliance of the sun—Plato’s message is clear: reality and reason are most real when man is critical of what he’s established to be objective fact. One strong example from the text is when is when the prisoner’s eye witness freedom: “And if he compelled him to look at the light itself what his eyes hurt him but he fully turning away to those things that

Plato is known to many as one of the most influential and greatest philosophers to have lived. Plato represents his idea of reality and the truth about what we perceive through one of his famous writings, “The Allegory of the Cave”. The philosophical writing is in the form of an allegory, which is “a story in which the characters and situations actually represent people and situations in another context”(Pg. 448). In the story, Plato uses the technique of creating a conversation between his teacher Socrates and his brother Glaucon.

In his essay, “The Allegory of the Cave,” Plato, argues his idea of how to distinguish the reality and truth from that which is a falsehood. Most essentially, he finds it as important to enlighten others that may remain in that

Plato’s Allegory to the Cave was a very challenging yet intriguing piece to read. I had some trouble reading the story because of the way it was worded, but the deeper meaning really caught my attention. I really enjoyed the scenario that was created to convey the deeper meaning too. The deeper meaning of being able to come to face with reality can relate to many events in my life. Something else that I strongly agreed with even though it was tough to understand was the view on politics and the deeper meaning.

Plato’s use of an allegory, or just a metaphorical story in general, is an extremely effective way of creating a learning setting that most people can understand, as most people can visualize a cave, a man, and the sun. This works very well to get his point across, and of course prompted me to think in many ways I have not before. This allegory with the cave is so broad on the topics it covers, it can be used in literally so many instances in our daily life today. I see the “cave” as the absence of learning. Any wealth of knowledge that increases your worth and makes you see “outside the box” will create a distance between

He gives an impression that whatever a person look through is an illusion and to perceive the truth everyone had to struggle for the truth. It may take time, exertion but achievement would be long-lasting, and everything we see is illusion and misconception. Plato claim that “At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows” (201). Plato compares the suffering of a prisoner to the struggle of students. Most students plan their long and short-term goals and to achieve it the had to toil, and struggle for it.

Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” is a metaphor for life and the distinction of reality versus perceived reality. The text

This paper discussed The Allegory of The Cave in Plato's Republic, and tries to unfold the messages Plato wishes to convey with regard to his conception of reality, knowledge and education.

Brianna Vega August 10, 2014 Truth, what does it mean to know what the truth is & how can we validate what the truth is? In Plato’s “Allegory of The Cave “ Plato demonstrations how people validate the truth based on what they see; but things aren’t always as they may appear. The people in the story think that the shadows in the cave are real when in all actuality the shadows were just illusions. Just because the people saw the shadows doesn’t mean they are valid.

In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato presents his philosophy on hidden knowledge and its effect on the human mind. The word ''allegory'' in the title refers to his theory as a story that can be interpreted to expose the truth behind its hidden meaning. In this essay Plato tells a story about three prisoners who know nothing about the real world and all they could see is people shadows who were walking by the cave, while the prisoners couldn't turn their heads to see what is behind them. The main idea in the story is about knowledge and how it can't be transferred instantly from one person to another, but it can used to guide people through life and see the real world as it being seen by enlightened individuals. As Plato introduces the main idea

The main idea presented by Plato in his infamous Allegory of the Cave is that the average person's perceptions are severely limited by personal perspective. Plato uses the metaphorical situation of prisoners chained together in a way that limited their visual perception to the shadows projected from behind them onto a wall in front of them. He uses that metaphor to illustrate that perspective determines perceptions and also that once an individual achieves a wider or more accurate perspective, it becomes difficult for him to communicate with those who are still limited to the narrower perspective that he may have once shared with them. Plato meant his allegory to apply to the limitations of perspective attributable to social experiences as well as to the absence of formal education and training, particularly in logical reasoning. Plato believed that logical reasoning is a skill that must be learned through formal training and that without adequate training, it is substantially impossible to understand the logical perspective.