Plato's Allegory Of The Cave: A Body Of Knowledge

There appears to be a type of anxiety today that involves education. It seems like one has to have an education to survive, but what does it mean to have an education? Education, by definition, is “a body of knowledge acquired while being educated” (“Education,” def. 1.2), but what is “a body of knowledge?” Just like education, knowledge can be many things, but I would argue that knowledge is a virtual concept that exists as part of a virtual world known as education. Actual knowledge is formed using the ideals of others, and educating is the process in which “students” are made to become theoretical slaves to this knowledge without concern for the consequences. Also, even though knowledge is virtual, its ideas bleed into the “real world” where …show more content…
1). This is in some ways true, but this definition leaves a lot to be desired. Just like any other definition, one must understand all the words in the definition to imagine the word being described. What is a fact? At what point does an idea become a fact? Is information a fact? In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Socrates introduces knowledge as something that is already apparent as long as one knows where to look. This suggest that there are facts in this world, but Socrates also takes a moment to point out that only God knows if what he says is true or not, and the cave suggests that there are plenty of obstacles to distract us from “truth.” J.L. Borges suggests that there are multiple types of knowledge in his piece Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. The narrator states, “We already know that in Tlön the subject of knowledge is one and eternal.” This, and the following lines, suggest that something about the narrator’s world is different. The use of the word “we” refers not only to the speaker but a group of fellow thinkers. The words “already know” suggests that the following information is accepted as fact; there is nothing to be argued. The end of the sentence “the subject of knowledge is one and