Plato's Allegory Of The Cave Research Paper

Plato (427-347 BCE) was born into a wealthy and noble family in Athens. He was preparing for a career in politics when the trial and eventual execution of Socrates

(399 BCE) changed the course of his life. He abandoned his political career and turned to philosophy. He opened a school on the outskirts of Athens dedicated to the Socratic search for wisdom. Plato's school was known as the Academy.

Plato’s most famous teaching is known as the Allegory of the Cave. It can be found in Book VII of Plato's best-known work, 'The Republic'. In the Allegory

Plato described symbolically the predicament in which mankind finds itself and proposes a way of salvation. Plato was the innovator of the written dialogue and dialect forms in philosophy. Plato appears to have been the

Plato's own most decisive philosophical influences are usually thought to have been Socrates ,Parmenides,Heralitus and

Pythagoras, , although few of his predecessors' works remain extant and much of what we know about these figures today derives from Plato himself

The Academy, the school he founded in 385 B.C.E., became the model for other schools of higher learning and later for European universities. The philosophy of

Plato is marked by the usage of dialectic, a method of discussion involving ever more profound insights into the nature of reality, and by cognitive optimism, a belief in the capacity of the human mind to attain the truth and to use this truth for the rational and virtuous ordering of human affairs.

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Plato’s ideology on Democracy

Plato has a strong view on democracy .Plato does not consider the democracy as the best form of government. In his book Republic he critizes, the direct