Monday, March 17, 2014
My analysis on Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"
The "Allegory of the Cave" was one of Plato's philosophical way of thinking. He portrayed three men in a cave who were chained up. The men have never learned about anything else and have never been exposed to anything because all they were ever familiar with was the wall that they faced all their lives. Then Plato explained what would happen if one of the men were dragged out of the cave and onto the outside world. The reality. The man would be stunned because he didn't know that trees were green and that the objects that he and the other men were observing were actually just shadows of the objects behind them all along. After awhile, he started to become adjusted to the real world and he began comprehending the way of life and learned new things that he never thought existed until he experienced it himself. His eyes even got adjusted to the sunlight due to the fact that his eyes were adjusted to the darkness of the cave.Furthermore, when the man went back into the cave he couldn't see anything because he was already adjusted to the light of the sun. When he tried to explain to the men that the figures on the wall were really their shadows and that trees are really green, he felt helpless and came to the conclusion that in order for the men to comprehend that trees are green, they would have to experience it for themselves.
The "Allegory of the Cave" was one of Plato's philosophical way of thinking. He portrayed three men in a cave who were chained up. The men have never learned about anything else and have never been exposed to anything because all they were ever familiar with was the wall that they faced all their lives. Then Plato explained what would happen if one of the men were dragged out of the cave and onto the outside world. The reality. The man would be stunned because he didn't know that trees were green and that the objects that he and the other men were observing were actually just shadows of the objects behind them all along. After awhile, he started to become adjusted to the real world and he began comprehending the way of life and learned new things that he never thought existed until he experienced it himself. His eyes even got adjusted to the sunlight due to the fact that his eyes were adjusted to the darkness of the cave.Furthermore, when the man went back into the cave he couldn't see anything because he was already adjusted to the light of the sun. When he tried to explain to the men that the figures on the wall were really their shadows and that trees are really green, he felt helpless and came to the conclusion that in order for the men to comprehend that trees are green, they would have to experience it for themselves.
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