The cave was written by the world renowned philosopher Plato in the 4th century. The Cave is a small excerpt in his larger famous work called The Republic. The Cave is has been known as a good summary of a variety of Plato’s main beliefs about the view that we have here and our potential by looking into Philosophy as being the main point that he is trying to get across. But he is also able to mention how he views the morality of man, that we as humans cannot teach each other but can only guide each other to unlocking this self knowledge that we already have, and his work is often referred to as a “utopian blueprint”. The excerpt begins with the philosopher Socrates whom we have already heard from who is having a conversation with a younger
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It will not be natural when we first experience this, rightly compared to looking at a bright light for the first time, but over time our vision will not only accept it but also begin to indulge in it with joy. But this not the end of the analogy. Socrates continues on with his analogy and says that if anyone were to be able to escape the prison of the cave and see the world with the bright sun and everything around it that he would want to return to his friends in the cave and show them this new world around him, but if they can’t get to it and are only used to the shadows on the wall of the cave then they will think that he is merely a dreamer and is not thinking rationally, much like how people of the world thought of Plato and his ideas of the knowledge of the world is up in the heavens and not down here on …show more content…
He also makes a claim that just as an eye can adjust to the bright light of the fire or of the sun, there was nobody that was necessary to aid the man in adjusting to the light. So is the same with how we learn. Plato believed that we are not ever taught things and we don’t learn new things. We are only provided with someone who can aid us to open our minds in such a way as to unlock that knowledge that we already have in us, we just never knew how to get to
It will not be natural when we first experience this, rightly compared to looking at a bright light for the first time, but over time our vision will not only accept it but also begin to indulge in it with joy. But this not the end of the analogy. Socrates continues on with his analogy and says that if anyone were to be able to escape the prison of the cave and see the world with the bright sun and everything around it that he would want to return to his friends in the cave and show them this new world around him, but if they can’t get to it and are only used to the shadows on the wall of the cave then they will think that he is merely a dreamer and is not thinking rationally, much like how people of the world thought of Plato and his ideas of the knowledge of the world is up in the heavens and not down here on …show more content…
He also makes a claim that just as an eye can adjust to the bright light of the fire or of the sun, there was nobody that was necessary to aid the man in adjusting to the light. So is the same with how we learn. Plato believed that we are not ever taught things and we don’t learn new things. We are only provided with someone who can aid us to open our minds in such a way as to unlock that knowledge that we already have in us, we just never knew how to get to