Allegory Of The Cave Summary

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The allegory of the cave:
Plato, a philosopher in ancient Greece, said I know that I know nothing. In Plato's “Allegory of The Cave”, a man was released from the place where he lived for many years. Soon the man got his most valuable lesson that the place where used to live for many years was not the real world, but which is an imaginary world. He became the man who has the knowledge in the world of the cave, but tragically killed by others due to his speech. Since the beginning of the civilized society, education is one of the perspectives that human being was pursuing besides the basic needs. The man was getting a good education while he discovered the world follows the light. It did not only benefit himself as a person but also gives an opportunity for the group of individuals with him to enter a new world of reality. "As per Plato, true knowledge can only be gained by ascending from the lowest level (darkness of existence, ignorance of reality) to gradually go higher (coming out the cave, experiencing a different life) and then spreading that experience to the peers (return to cave, to spread the …show more content…

We don’t know about his size, weight, color of skin, not even his dialect. The whole story is narrated as a dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon. There is no notation from our protagonist. He was more like an iconic abstract concept representing the possibility of being enlightened. His thinking process is expressed through the words of Socrates. We can infer from the dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon, that, “all these movements would be painful, and he would be too dazzled to make out the objects whose shadows he was used to seeing” (Morris 427-428). The process of converting the Enlightened went through was painstaking. However, it’s worthwhile. Otherwise, he wouldn’t go back to try to enlighten the others in the cave. He thought what he had attained worth spreading and

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