Humans decisions are in the hands of each own. Their opportunity to make use of each decision expresses our free will. In life, humans determine whether their freedom of making their decision is too extreme, and if they should make that decision or not. Sometimes that pushes us to our limit and forces us to do things we are not usually accustomed to doing.
While we express the opportunity to showcase free will, there are limits that can stop the idea of it, for example laws. Laws sets a barrier to which we can make decisions on our own and pushes us to our own boundaries. In particular this relates to me because there was this moment in my life where a law limited my decision making. I wanted to make the decision to drink alcohol to have …show more content…
They have the power to challenge their limit on their free will which is escaping the cave to see the real world. Although the idea of the unknown when escaping, the prisoner exhibit that he can go beyond the limits of his freedom by escaping. One of the prisoner who did a notable act to what the other prisoner may think he shouldn’t have done, showcased his freedom to make his own decisions. This prisoner who expresses his free will by making a decision that he was looked upon, actually benefited him, because he got to see a different side of the world that the other prisoner didn’t get to see. The author proclaimed that "At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; "(Plato 10) According to this quote, the prisoner whose decision to make use of his free will, and walk towards the light shining into the cave, will make him see the real objects rather than the deceived shadows that was normal and consider reality to him and the other prisoners. His decision to go profited the him because he got to see another side of the world that the other prisoners didn’t get to see. The other
While we express the opportunity to showcase free will, there are limits that can stop the idea of it, for example laws. Laws sets a barrier to which we can make decisions on our own and pushes us to our own boundaries. In particular this relates to me because there was this moment in my life where a law limited my decision making. I wanted to make the decision to drink alcohol to have …show more content…
They have the power to challenge their limit on their free will which is escaping the cave to see the real world. Although the idea of the unknown when escaping, the prisoner exhibit that he can go beyond the limits of his freedom by escaping. One of the prisoner who did a notable act to what the other prisoner may think he shouldn’t have done, showcased his freedom to make his own decisions. This prisoner who expresses his free will by making a decision that he was looked upon, actually benefited him, because he got to see a different side of the world that the other prisoner didn’t get to see. The author proclaimed that "At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; "(Plato 10) According to this quote, the prisoner whose decision to make use of his free will, and walk towards the light shining into the cave, will make him see the real objects rather than the deceived shadows that was normal and consider reality to him and the other prisoners. His decision to go profited the him because he got to see another side of the world that the other prisoners didn’t get to see. The other