A decently controversial concept is brought up in The Allegory… The cave prisoners were born believing all they see in front of them, the dancing shadows of people backlit by the fire behind them, are actually black beings moving along the cave wall in front of them. How is it possible they believe in such a reality as closed minded as this? Surely they would know better after one prisoner was freed and shown reality as non prisoners see, comes back and tells their story. Why don’t they believe him?
This had me thinking. People born with color blindness usually grow up becoming as functional as any other human being, right? Well, sure, but they have no idea what people without color blindness talk about when they try to explain color to them. …show more content…
-”Is questioned about the objects”
“If all this were to happen to the prisoner, what do you think he would say if someone were to inform him that what he saw before were mere trifles, but now that he was much nearer to beings; and that, as a consequence of now being turned toward what is more in being, he also saw more correctly?”
If someone were to be born into an agnostic family and never been shown the joy and hope religion is said to give to many people, chances are, they haven’t “seen the light” or experienced something that is exactly nothing short of a miracle, almost paranormal in nature; said miracle a religious person would chalk up to be an act of their god/s… Agnostic people when confronted by people who have seen that “light” (ie, the prisoners allowed out of their chains telling the chained prisoners of their experience) largely are skeptical of their tellings, as they haven’t seen these acts of God religious people have (or the dimension outside the prisoners’ reality) for themselves. These religious people see things from a completely different perspective than the non-religious people do. If either’s perspective are any more real than the others’ is completely opinionative, but there is no arguing both perspectives are rather
This had me thinking. People born with color blindness usually grow up becoming as functional as any other human being, right? Well, sure, but they have no idea what people without color blindness talk about when they try to explain color to them. …show more content…
-”Is questioned about the objects”
“If all this were to happen to the prisoner, what do you think he would say if someone were to inform him that what he saw before were mere trifles, but now that he was much nearer to beings; and that, as a consequence of now being turned toward what is more in being, he also saw more correctly?”
If someone were to be born into an agnostic family and never been shown the joy and hope religion is said to give to many people, chances are, they haven’t “seen the light” or experienced something that is exactly nothing short of a miracle, almost paranormal in nature; said miracle a religious person would chalk up to be an act of their god/s… Agnostic people when confronted by people who have seen that “light” (ie, the prisoners allowed out of their chains telling the chained prisoners of their experience) largely are skeptical of their tellings, as they haven’t seen these acts of God religious people have (or the dimension outside the prisoners’ reality) for themselves. These religious people see things from a completely different perspective than the non-religious people do. If either’s perspective are any more real than the others’ is completely opinionative, but there is no arguing both perspectives are rather