Ignorance is when an individual believes he knows what he does not know. Ignorance can be found in Plato’s Apology. Playa was Socrates most known pupil. Socrates shows us that even the wisest man had no more wisdom than himself and that he was truly worthless. People often choose to be ignorant. I believe this is true because of what people think of themselves. They believe they are more important than anyone else when in reality everyone has the same amount of importance. It may even be the opposite in which they think lesser of themselves in which they are still ignorant form thinking they know that, but truly they do not. Plato approaches ignorance with reality. Plato says that in order to achieve wisdom people ned to have the right mindset of understanding knowledge and their own reality. His Allegory of the Cave shows how he present his ideas. The allegory shows two prisoners chained up in a cave behind a wall that can only see shadows from the outside. They however do not know the source of the shadow and what is producing it. Also behind them is a stone path that will lead them to the real world. The meaning behind this is that it shows the truths which can be found with reason. In reality it shows the difference of reality from intangible objects such as the shadows from the men in the
Ignorance is when an individual believes he knows what he does not know. Ignorance can be found in Plato’s Apology. Playa was Socrates most known pupil. Socrates shows us that even the wisest man had no more wisdom than himself and that he was truly worthless. People often choose to be ignorant. I believe this is true because of what people think of themselves. They believe they are more important than anyone else when in reality everyone has the same amount of importance. It may even be the opposite in which they think lesser of themselves in which they are still ignorant form thinking they know that, but truly they do not. Plato approaches ignorance with reality. Plato says that in order to achieve wisdom people ned to have the right mindset of understanding knowledge and their own reality. His Allegory of the Cave shows how he present his ideas. The allegory shows two prisoners chained up in a cave behind a wall that can only see shadows from the outside. They however do not know the source of the shadow and what is producing it. Also behind them is a stone path that will lead them to the real world. The meaning behind this is that it shows the truths which can be found with reason. In reality it shows the difference of reality from intangible objects such as the shadows from the men in the