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Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Introduction

The allegory of the cave is one of the best known works of Greek philosopher Plato. It is s an extended allegory,

It depicts that human beings are as prisoners and how the perceive the world while sighting alone.

Plato delineates the idea that What would be the result if people will suddenly experience the dive light of sun and reality perception.

In the allegory of the cave, Plato plays with the notion of what would happen if people suddenly found the divine light of the sun and perception of "reality." It can also be said that what if people really embraced philosophy and are enlightened by it?

Plato believed that the advancement of knowledge was not so much a process of continuous evolution but as a transformation from a state of less adequate knowledge to a higher one.

To clarify this concept envisions an underground cavern with an opening where sunlight penetrates live there since her birth people chained facing the back of the cave without seeing the light.

Summary

Plato represents man's condition as a situation in which he is “chained in cave” and he has fire behind him. He depicts man perceiving the world by watching shadows on the wall. He sees the false light of the fire in the darkness and he doesn't realize this incorrect existence. He knows no one to complain and compare his existence with the people who are free. He is far away from the truth of life.

Plato then imagines the allegory of the cave of what would happen if the chained man were suddenly freed from slavery. It is explicated by Plato that some people are very much scared and threatened to see the divine light and they intend to return to familiar dark existence. Some other people see the world as it is originally looks after watching the Sun

He would then think that I should return to the cave to free the others in debt bondage. He is then amazed to see that people in the cave don't believe in the truth. People go against him and the existence of truth. Number of interpretations is applied on various allegories and on allegories of cave too.

According to Plato, Socrates spent his whole life endeavoring to free others and reach the ultimate truth but in the end he was fired and sentenced to death.

Other than this truth must be experienced because language is incapable of transmitting beliefs. This is a constant theme in the work of Plato.

Language is like a reflection of the truth. Unconscionable people who have firm religious view echoed this statement. Faith can't be transferred to others but it is actually experienced.

The allegory of cave also depicts the metaphor for the phases of existence of human and philosophical enlightenment that occurs during the life.

When sunlight shines on the man, it is an allegory of enlightenment and the perception of truth. The smallest concerns of the world as seen above are now seen as false perception held ...