Socrates And Allegory Of The Cave

Plato and Socrates are among the most notable philosophers throughout history. Their ideas remain relevant to this day. After reading The Ring of Gyges and Allegory of The Cave, I find it better to be unjust, due the advantage and benefits it gives. By being unjust, it is more possible to have control over things which normally you do not. These stories test the mind by making you look at both sides of justice.
The freedom to act unjustly, without fear of retribution, would be most easily realized if one were to have the power the ancestor of Gyges of Lydia allegedly possessed. As the story goes, Gyges was a shepherd under the rule of the king of Lydia. There was a thunderstorm and an earthquake which broke open the earth causing a cave in. …show more content…
Human beings living in an underground cave, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the cave; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and only see before them being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads (Plato)”. In the very back behind them, there is a fire blazing that provides light creating shadows. The only thing they see are their shadows cast on the wall in front of them. In front of this fire is a raised walkway like a bridge. On this way, there is a short wall like the screen in which puppet players have in front of them hiding them and only showing the puppets. There are men that pass behind the wall carrying a variety of objects that are held above the wall which cast shadows in front of the prisoners. “And if they were able to converse with one another, would they not suppose that they were naming what was actually before them?” They are also able to hear the echoes bouncing off of the cave walls; wouldn’t they conclude that the sounds are coming from the shadows themselves. They find the truth to be only the shadows in front of them because they know nothing …show more content…
I was told, “If your father can fix it, you can have it for almost nothing”. I thought that that was an amazing deal and my dad told me that he could fix it so, I got the truck. We started working on it and once we thought we found the problem and fixed it, another one arose just as fast. Due to the fact that I went into that project ignorant, it took one and a half years and a few thousand dollars to fix it and get it running. If I would have examined the truck closer and gained the necessary knowledge about the truck and what state it was in to begin with, I would have been aware of the situation I was about to put me and my father in, and we would have known what to