Socrates: The Apology And Allegory Of The Cave

Socrates was a Greek philosopher who was known mostly because of his type of reasoning and thoughts that were based on using questions to get an answer to things or facts that were not so clear. Socrates believed in searching for information and answers instead of relying on the general believe of others or common sense. According to ‘biography.com’ (N.D), much was not known about Socrates, apart from the things that his students like Prato wrote about him. Even though that Socrates is known as the source of western thoughts, there are other philosophical thoughts that had changed or affected the way people reason during the past, and one of them is the story of a good Brahmin that was written by Voltaire. Plato, who was a student of Socrates wrote about his master’s unending love for the quest of knowledge. Socrates ways of reasoning were mainly based on …show more content…
He found out that things are not always the way people see or think about them. The apology and allegory of the cave were used to explain the extent, which philosophers can go in trying to gain wisdom