Analysis Of Plato's Allegory Of The Line

It is clear to state that man can be blinded by the materialist view of this puzzling world because of the value and beauty that man puts upon each and every object that is being place on this earth. But, what’s truly sad about man is that, when one man tries to help another man to expand on the intellect of the puzzling world that he lives in, instead of creating an environment of intellectual safety, man resides into the side of ignorance and rejects the idea of intellectual expansion. The reason why Plato’s allegory of the cave is, which is perhaps, the most commonly cited excerpt in philosophy, is so significant is because actions and behaviors explained in this allegory are still present two thousand years later after the creation of the allegory, it teaches us a valuable lesson about the beauty of life and this world, and it enhance on the purpose of The Simile of The Line.
To start off, Plato created this allegory to portray a certain message to the people of this world, but, even some people side with the ignorant when they discover Plato’s allegory of the cave. In the allegory, there were prisoners inside a cave, only witnessing the shadows of the world that the puppeteers had created, just like us in this modern period of time. We witness this world through the eyes of the …show more content…
This world is not perfect when it come to the idea of knowing what perfection is. But, if man experiences something on the side of reality compared to the glitter that we are all use to seeing, shouldn’t we absorb the theory that he is stating, even though it is not the highest form of knowledge. This is why Plato’s Allegory of the cave had to teach us the actions and behaviors of humans, even two thousand years later after the creation of the allegory, the valuable lesson about the beauty of life and this world, and the enhance on the purpose of The Simile of The