Myth Of The Cave Analysis
In Plato’s Myth of the Cave, he explains the ignorance of the current human situation by describing events that happened to men chained in a cave. These men were chained by the neck and legs, so they could only face the cave wall. As the men sit, they often see shadows of animals and humans from the flickering fire that is behind them. One day, a man is released from his chains to venture around the cave, making his way out of the cave. During his adventure, he experiences blindness from the light and witnesses the objects that cast shadows onto the cave’s walls. Unbeknownst to the men, everything they heard and saw were illusions. This story can be applied to my life by interpreting the cave as my mind and the objects that cast shadows on the cave walls as the world. In my mind, I have senses, a priori thought, and developed
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Therefore, I don’t have to question everything around me since I’ve experienced all of the things/events that are in my daily surroundings. This thought process however, can be very faulty and hinder me from obtaining new knowledge and logic. If I completely rely on my senses, like the men chained into the cave, I wouldn’t know what was really happening around me. Senses can only allow you to perceive what you have already experienced. This brain does not have the ability to depict the world around us accurately. We may see the sky as blue, because that is the closest pigment our vision and brain can absorb. The men in the cave only thought the shadows and sounds in the caves were animals and humans, because that’s what they can trace back to past experiences and senses. I think that Plato was trying to tell us that assuming what
Therefore, I don’t have to question everything around me since I’ve experienced all of the things/events that are in my daily surroundings. This thought process however, can be very faulty and hinder me from obtaining new knowledge and logic. If I completely rely on my senses, like the men chained into the cave, I wouldn’t know what was really happening around me. Senses can only allow you to perceive what you have already experienced. This brain does not have the ability to depict the world around us accurately. We may see the sky as blue, because that is the closest pigment our vision and brain can absorb. The men in the cave only thought the shadows and sounds in the caves were animals and humans, because that’s what they can trace back to past experiences and senses. I think that Plato was trying to tell us that assuming what