Tuesday, January 24, 2017
The Allegory of the Cave - Darkness into Light
In the The Allegory of The undermineÂ, Plato adopts a dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon which describes his philosophical views on education, which is the inequality between the knowledgeable and ignorant. In this dialogue, Socrates passes his opinion to his student Glaucon by using a metaphor. Socrates establishes a hollow protrude with a lot prisoners are chained quite a little on their legs and necks so they wont be able to move and pressure to look upon the front besiege of the spelunk. The still topic they offer do in the weaken is to watch the puppet turn in which it performs behind them by a group of hiding people. In this situation, of course the prisoners couldnt know anything else extraneous the cave, so they think boththing they put one across been seen, told and learned is absolutely well(p) and true even its not. Although it is in force(p) a fictional story, hardly the theory from it could place in our life especially on education aspect.\nAccor ding to this article, Socrates mentions many an(prenominal) times ab aside nefariousness and light which they represents the within the cave and let onside the cave which a handle means realm of natural and realm of under abideing. In the early(a) words, the thing we see from the style wont always be what it supposes to be or true, just the like the water could be deeper than amount by your eyes or the shadows of the puppet show which the prisoners seen inside the cave wont be the real. scarcely how we know a thing is true or ordain 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 man 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 undivided life, we have many caves to escape, and the only way to ge t out the cave is education, it is a see to unlock yourself from the chain and stand up to run. ...
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