Plato's Influence On The Allegory Of The Cave

We may think that we come up we ideas and theories because is something that happened in our mind and that nobody had to do something with it but all our surround environment influence us in how we take decision, in what we believe and much more. Philosophers had been influence throughout their life by other people in order to come up with their works. The philosophical work of some of the great philosophers of all time such as Plato, Marx, Freud and Carnegie were also influenced by the environment in which they were living. In the “Allegory of the Cave”, Plato was influenced by several events that happened in his life that lead to him writing this essay in a way to express his feeling on what society do to people that can show them reality.

Furthermore, according to Philosophers.co.uk, Plato was influenced by Socrates, he become his teacher. The influence that Socrates give to Plato were basically about religion and sciences. His work was divided into three period dialogues, the early, middle and the late period. In his early and middle dialogue, Plato is all about Socrates life and how Socrates used to defend himself. When Plato wrote the “Allegory of the Cave” after the death of Socrates many scholars believe that that was the main reason that influence Plato on writing it. Plato wrote about the trial of Socrates in the Republic with the title “The Apology” in other word a defence. In this work based on Plato, Socrates was being accused by past and present accuser, the past accuser was accusing Socrates of not believing in God and making the weaker argument the stronger, and the present accuser were accusing Socrates of not believing in God and corrupting the youth. Socrates was found guilty of all the charges since he questioned the Oracle and he would talk in public places where he would question the people and corrupt the youth. Socrates was sentenced to death, and was forced to drink poison. If we connect this event to