.PLATO’S MYTH OF THE CAVE.

PLATO’S MYTH OF THE CAVE

Plato

The allegory of the cave

The allegory of the cave is metaphor. Even though we may consider it as a metaphor for numerous things, Plato uses it as a metaphor to describe his theory of the forms.

Prisoners in a cave can only see shadows which exhibit the reality ad there is nothing more to life. They can see the world once they escape from the prison.

Plato has divided boundary of knowledge. Generally, at the nethermost, is our visual perception of the physical materials on the biosphere, which he compares to prisoners in a cave seeing shadows. At the topmost of the boundary, is mathematics and forms.

The forms are indescribable which inclusive the roundness, liberty and perfection. Everybody in the world may become longer bloom with blissful, but that does not destroy the concept of happiness. For example:

Religious experience or being free from any religion

once we know that there is something beyond the innermost of the cave and the shadows on the wall, the desire to see it overwhelming and tends to do anything to see the light on the outside.

Example the theory which relates to our real life nowadays..?

• The Christians and Atheist cluster always arguing over the existence of God. They are so busy rebelling over what happens when they die, that the blinders, blind them from life. They get over that the important part is living our life in a way that we feel is morally acceptable, we all should do this regardless of our view on God, yet these groups will fight over God rather than what is right and wrong in this world, now, and working on things we can entirely consent o, which includes preventing murder, theft, and suffering as much as possible.

I could be wrong, but it is just something that I think really shows people putting blinders on and not noticing what happens around them, the things in this life is that they can fix, instead of the next life, which they can’t control.