Plato's Allegory Of The Cave Analysis

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Another one of Plato's beliefs was that there are different degrees of reality. The degrees of reality are split into two sections of the intelligible world and the world of appearance. In the intelligible world your state of mind is important to understand the good, forms and mathematical objects. To understand those “objects” you must have intelligence and reason. The other side of the degrees of reality is the world of appearance were visible things and images are understood by beliefs and illusions not from your knowledge. (Petrik 91) What Plato believes is that there are different degrees of reality that correspond to the amount of knowledge one has. He believed that the higher the knowledge or intelligence you have effects how open you …show more content…

The allegory of the cave is where Plato chained prisoners in a dark cave and had the shadow of different images shown to them to convince them those images were reality. The prisoners knew nothing but the shadows of the images which claimed to be reality. One man freed himself and had ran out of the cave and finally saw the true outside world rather than the fake shadowed images. The man who saw the real world went back into the cave to explain what he saw but the prisoners did not believe him and eventually they killed the man. (Petrik 98) The allegory of the cave continues to prove Plato's beliefs right. Without knowledge you become blind to reality in a sense. The prisoners were ignorant and did not want to believe the freed man. The freed man also can represent Socrates because he would preach his ideas and no one would listen to him because they simply did not understand. The prisoners represent ordinary people minds because ordinary people do not bothering trying to open their mind and learn such concepts. The allegory of the cave is important to remember to not hold back and also question what you are told is to be true. Also this situation is important to remind us that we should never be too comfortable as we should stay out of our comfort zone. As people we all have “our chains” that hold us down and keep us from doing things because society or our culture has put it into our mind that we cannot do

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