Cave Of Plato

The cave of Plato and the current climate of terror
These last months were marked by terrorist attacks right in the heart of Europe that had provoked strong feelings on people bewilderment, indignation, sadness, anger, distrust and fear. When France and Russia still cry their deaths, the international coalition answered to violence by violence: the strategic points of the Islamic State undergo the crossed fire of airstrikes. The French governments and Belgian decreed a steady and constant state of alert justifying the deployment of police and military strengths in the heart of the cities. Supposed to reassure the population, these armed plans remind that an imminent danger smooths over people’s head. Distrust and fear are maintained permanently …show more content…
A light comes to them between the fire and the prisoners cross a high road lined with a wall over whom the puppeteers bustle. The men never saw each other but perceive only the shadows of their body, those of their neighbors and puppets such as they are thrown by the fire which is behind them on the bottom of the cave. The men think that these shadows are the reality. In order to be free the men are forced to find the exit of the cave, they would be dazzled by the outside, would see at first nothing, would complain to be mistreated and would ask to get back inside of the cave. They would take time to begin to distinguish the reality outside the cave that represents the truth and the pure ideas. Be nourishing of these, they would not soon like to return anymore to the cave by fear of being blinded by the darkness. Socrates supports however that it is of the duty of men to return to the cave and to lead others to borrow the same road towards the wisdom. Only the people who freed themselves from shadows of the cave should be authorized to govern the …show more content…
So complex that we seem very badly armed to produce an opinion qualified on the subject. And nevertheless, there are many comments which we hear, filled with certainties and with clear-cut moral judgments. The media seized this theme in almost exclusive way, soaking the population on diverse information as for instance quotations extracted from their context, from short-term interventions, from provocative sentences on punctuate claimed debates on the subject. However, in spite of the hours passed in front of the television, the stakes remain still very dark. It does not, however, prevent everything to each from building up itself a series of certainties often solidly anchored. The thing is, nothing allows us to think that we went out well and truly of the cave, that we freed ourselves from shadows of the puppeteers, that we reached the truths. According to Plato, this question is important because the man who is still in the cave is taken away from the truth. The men so find to think, to speak, to act in accordance with the deceptive shadows. They undergo their sensations and repeat in echo what they hear. The common point of these actions is their obvious fact. According to Socrates’ predication, the exit of the cave is a way paved of tests which requires a guide already made sensitive in the philosophy. How to know that we are going