To begin with, the notion of ignorance has existed …show more content…
The story begins with a description of the scene. There is an underground Cave and inside of it, there are prisoners whose hands and legs have been chained since they were born. Behind them, a fire is burning. Between the prisoners and the fire, there is a sidewalk, where different statues are placed. These statutes are manipulated by another group of people. As a result of the fire, blindsided prisoners watch the shows these statues’ shadows play out. A prisoner is released, he sees the fire and statues. He is confused and feels pains, because of the light of the fire. He snatches how the shadows are caused. This represents the belief. Next, he goes out of The Cave. At first, he is dazed and confused. He can’t see clearly, because of the light, therefore he sees the shadows, after that the reflection on the water, and finally the objects themselves. Now, he knows that there is more than those statues and that they were only a copy of these Forms. This epitomizes a cognitive stage of thought. At this point, he is aware that The Sun is what causes seasons, what leads over noticeable region, and all the other things that he can see. The goal of education is for people to get out of the Cave, and go as far as possible. But that is not all. The one that gets out of The Cave must come back and illuminate his fellows with what he had already perceived. Glaucon states that, returning in the Cave will make the “ex-prisoner” unhappy. On the other hand, in Plato’s Republic, Socrates challenges this by