Reality In Plato's Allegory Of The Cave
The Allegory of the Cave tries to show the difference between appetences and reality. Plato shows this this through people that have been chained in a cave their whole lives. He also shows his own perspective of wisdom and knowledge. He shows how people react to the unknown, especially when someone else knows and they don’t. He shows the idea of appearances through shadows that are cast along the cave wall that the people in the cave are facing. Now in the story one of the men gets let out of the cave and is able to see the real world and not just the shadows. This is showing Plato’s perspective of reality compared to what appears to be reality. First thing that is discussed in the allegory is appearances. In the allegory appearances are explained by the shadows that are casted along the back wall. The people in this cave are facing this wall and that is all that they have seen since birth. These things that they see are reality to them because they know nothing else. In Plato’s
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But as in the story many had much disbelief in his appearances and reality theory. Plato thought that if they all became a government with the philosophers of the world as the monarchy and the teacher and people fill with courage as there “second hand man” then the gods would allow them to see the world in its true, real form. Overall Plato’s Allegory of the Cave show the differences between Plato’s appearances and reality in the real world. It brings light to some of Plato’s beliefs and his theories that he believed in. It also shows how people change and how people react to people that have or know something that they don’t know or have. It brings light to Plato’s thought of the heavens and how if you look into something and practice it over time you will understand the true form of
But as in the story many had much disbelief in his appearances and reality theory. Plato thought that if they all became a government with the philosophers of the world as the monarchy and the teacher and people fill with courage as there “second hand man” then the gods would allow them to see the world in its true, real form. Overall Plato’s Allegory of the Cave show the differences between Plato’s appearances and reality in the real world. It brings light to some of Plato’s beliefs and his theories that he believed in. It also shows how people change and how people react to people that have or know something that they don’t know or have. It brings light to Plato’s thought of the heavens and how if you look into something and practice it over time you will understand the true form of