Summary of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”
In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” Socrates discusses about, How most of the people spend their lives being ignorant and comfortable with that lifestyle is simply a choice.They don’t try to get out of the circle in which they have tied themselves. He explains that, prisoners are tied with chains,facing a wall in a cave so they cannot move.Behind them a fire is blazing at a distance and between the prisoners and the fire there is a road or a passage and they could only see what ever passes through that road it created a shadow on that wall. Men carrying various materials which appeared over the wall as a shadow and the prisoners only recognized one thing in their life are those shadows.Among them a prisoner was released and he went out of the cave and saw the colors of the world and learned new things and came back to the cave again to tell his mates about the outer world of the cave but all the other prisoners thought that he is also the same shadow that they see every day and didn't recognize their mate and never tried to learn what he was trying to teach them.
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My Place in the Cave
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Not a bad summary, but where is your response? :-(
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