What Is Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

Introduction
A number of contentions have been put forth over the years which are based on the political system’s role in implementing policies to ensure that education is for the mass and not just for the minority. In light of this we will discuss Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” and its implications for Jamaica’s political system in relations to education, poverty and linkages to crime. In Jamaica lack of education has been linked not only to unemployment but also poverty and crime. An important basis for this deliberation is to assess whether the political system is failing in its ‘duty’ to ensure that civil society is educated in order to see a reduction in poverty and crime. Or the political system is designed as a means of controlling the spoils in society to keep enslaving civil society. The use philosophical argument base on Plato’s Allegory of the cave, rationalism to discuss the plight of the Jamaica political system is in relations to education.
The Jamaican Political system in relations to education bear the same realities that Plato has put forth in his book entitled ‘The Republic’. In fact, from slavery days the rulers have been using education as a means to limit the view of the mass in order to rule over them. In Plato’s boo, he used the analogy of the ‘Allegory of the cave’ to …show more content…
Forcing them to sit in one position and confining their view to see only what is in front of them. At a distance there is a fire blazing behind them and there is also a raised way that has a low wall that was built that the rulers would stand on. This enabled them from seeing the puppets that were the real objects casting shadows and echoes from behind. Giving the slaves a limited view of the world because they only had the opportunity to see and know only what was portrayed in front of them by the shadows that were being masqueraded (Kreis,