The Allegory Of The Cave

The role of science plays a big role in everyday life. From medical science to political science, there has always been some kind of obstacle. These obstacles have made the art of science very difficult. Superstition being the exact opposite in science creates conflict with those of logic, imagination or lack of imagination creates ideas that interferes with sciences and creates conflict, doubt in sciences has made the arise of opposing theories and arguments, and the fear of science has made the impact of the “what if’s” in science and the controlling aspects of knowledge. Superstition being of the exact opposite of science has created conflict with those of logic. With different misconceptions in the science world it put things to question and excludes valuable information. In Francis Bacon’s The Four Idols, one of the idols is Idols of the Theater. “But the corruption of philosophy by superstition and an admixture of theology is far more widely …show more content…
The use of imagination is found in The Allegory of the Cave, when the ones who were locked in chains saw shadows and used their imagination on what they could be or represent. Until one of them was set free and found what those shadows actually were. The man, who was freed, went and told the ones in chains of what he saw and they rejected him because of what he saw. The use of imagination was rejected so-much-so they ridiculed him. Imagination can be a hindrance in science with altering the minds of those who want to make a change and science having rules and theories of what can and cannot be used. “The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination…” (Bacon 596) Those ideas can be irrational to science. The idea of a time machine is irrational in science. There has yet to be a way to time travel in this