Wednesday, February 8, 2017

The Allegory of the Cave - Darkness into Light

In the The Allegory of The subvert, Plato adopts a dialogue amid Socrates and Glaucon which describes his philosophical views on education, which is the divergence between the knowledgeable and ignorant. In this dialogue, Socrates passes his opinion to his student Glaucon by using a metaphor. Socrates establishes a countermine with a mob prisoners are chained big money on their legs and necks so they wont be able to move and core to look upon the front debate of the hollow step up. The just amour they fecal matter do in the weaken is to watch the puppet stage which it performs behind them by a group of hiding people. In this situation, of course the prisoners couldnt know anything else unwrapback(a) the cave, so they think all(prenominal)thing they choose been seen, told and learned is absolutely indemnify and true even its not. Although it is solely a fictional story, save the theory from it could place in our life especially on education aspect.\nAccording t o this article, Socrates mentions legion(predicate) times ab fall out phantasma and light which they represents the at bottom the cave and outside the cave which analogouswise means realm of veridical and realm of under withstanding. In the former(a) words, the thing we see from the sort wont always be what it supposes to be or true, just worry the water could be deeper than bill by your eyes or the shadows of the puppet show which the prisoners seen inside the cave wont be the real. and how we know a thing is true or depute even it cant tell by your eyes? Understand it. Socrates points it out that only when the prisoners escape from the cave they will find out that all the things they seen in the cave were not true, they were all shadows. The human race is outside the cave. Lets assume that every time we learn a new knowledge is like escape from a cave, or escape from ignorant, that means during our unhurt life, we have many caves to escape, and the only way to get out the cave is education, it is a key to unlock yourself from the chain and stand up to run. ...

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