Questions On Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

Question 1 In the story, The Allegory of the Cave, Plato uses the three prisoners to distinguish between genuine knowledge and right opinion. He uses psychological, epistemological, and metaphysical thoughts to prove it. In The Cave, there are three prisoners tied up and they can only look at the wall in front of them. In that cave, there is a light source behind them producing shadows that appear on that wall. The three play a game; the goal was to guess which shadow will appear next and if one of them gets it right, the other two prisoners will give praise to the winner. To their minds, this is how they will live their lives and be tied up in a cave forever. In their heads, they are stuck there and being unable to move, they have …show more content…
The more organized the person’s mind is, the better chance of him or her will answer that question. According to Plato, the answer to what is the most real in the universe is the forms. This only possible if the person gets closer to perfecting his mind and once he does, he will become a form. Once you become a form, the person is said to be happy. I imagine that a person would have to be mentally locked in and knows how the universe works in order to answer what can we know. From what I have read, to answer the first question you must answer the other two questions to find out what can we know really is. So, looking at the question, “what can we know,” can be answered, but only if qualifications are met. The user must have a mind that is in perfect sync or in harmony. While the question regarding the universe, it is only possible if the person is considered a form and if they can answer that question, then they know the answer to what can we