Describing the group of imprisoned human-beings as superficial, bound to their misperception in their dark and gloomy caves since their birth searching to find their individual “true” sources of knowledge thru the obscure reflections of the light. According to Plato the wall is like as a screen that can only reflect the surreal of the truth as highlighted in his quote “a wall, like a screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets” (Plato 868). This obscurity between the setting of the cave and the world of light has a physical representation of a barrier or contemporary world that one must cross to reach true illumination as well as one’s own thought process. Similarly, Bacon further evaluates the concept of knowledge in greater detail by categorizing human characteristic and though in the context of four idols which are the idols of the Cave, the idols of the Tribe, the idols of the Marketplace, and the idols of the Theater. Each one of these idols represents apparent weakness in humanity that invoke the
Describing the group of imprisoned human-beings as superficial, bound to their misperception in their dark and gloomy caves since their birth searching to find their individual “true” sources of knowledge thru the obscure reflections of the light. According to Plato the wall is like as a screen that can only reflect the surreal of the truth as highlighted in his quote “a wall, like a screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets” (Plato 868). This obscurity between the setting of the cave and the world of light has a physical representation of a barrier or contemporary world that one must cross to reach true illumination as well as one’s own thought process. Similarly, Bacon further evaluates the concept of knowledge in greater detail by categorizing human characteristic and though in the context of four idols which are the idols of the Cave, the idols of the Tribe, the idols of the Marketplace, and the idols of the Theater. Each one of these idols represents apparent weakness in humanity that invoke the