Compare Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

Plato likens human conditions to dark and dark caves. The parable of the cave divides the form of life into the life inside the cave and the life outside the cave. The life in the cave is the life of the phenomenal world, and the life outside the cave is a philosophical life. According to Plato, philosophical life precedes life in the phenomenal world. If the world of phenomena is a perishing world, the world outside the cave is a world of ideas that never change. The parable of the cave tells us that the essential basis of human beings starts from reason. In the parable of the cave, the real life of man begins by coming out of the cave, realizing the philosophical truth, and returning to inform the human society of this truth. A person, who uses …show more content…
The allegory of a cave is analogous to a world of visible reality in a cave, and a world of reality that can be seen by intelligence outside a cave. The prisoners who are locked in a cave that cannot even look inside the cave in the cave are confused by the rational judgment, the slave of the desire not to be able to make a good judgment, the shadow that blurs the rational judgment, The person who can come out is someone who is trying to have a reasonable judgment, and if the person mentioned in "If you drag him out of here through a steep, steep uphill path," you will be able to reach him as a savior who will reach philosophical knowledge It was interpreted as the sun to give the ability to see through nature by providing nutrition for generation and growth. We cannot distinguish well with many shadows. This is the state of Plato. It is a story that has been with humanity for a very long time, but I felt that there is a connection with our phenomenon today. We can once again feel the importance of thinking and studying through these stories in order not to be dazzled by the shadows that put us in