Compare And Contrast The Allegory Of The Cave And Plato

Philosophers have always searched for what they believed was the best way to live. Plato and Matthew are two of the most renowned philosophers of all- time on this issue. Plato wrote around 400 B.C.E while Matthew wrote around 80 A.D. Even though they wrote almost 480 years apart, they still wrote about what they thought the best society was. Although they did not have the same ideas on the way society should function, they both had futuristic ideas that should be utilized today. Plato, through The Allegory of the Cave and Matthew, through the Gospel of Matthew wrote about what it means to form a more just society for the common good while mostly disagreeing with the ways of our current world. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is about what education can do to the uneducated. The beings in …show more content…
For starters, the Beatitudes are a number of teachings that Jesus gives during the Sermon on the Mount. His teachings are based on what the individual should be doing but if it’s extrapolated out, they show how an ideal society should function. Jesus teaches that we should not allow ourselves to become angry, "'But I say to you, whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment'" (Matthew 5:22). This seems like a highly unrealistic expectation, but it would work very well in concept. It also seems irrational to punish based on thoughts instead of actions, but he clearly gets his point across. Most of the bad things that happen in this world are from the anger of someone so if we could eliminate anger, we would have a more just society. We do not typically follow his teachings on anger though. People usually let their emotions run higher than they should and act rashly because of it. Jesus would be disappointed by how we cannot control our anger. If the general population could control these emotions, Jesus believed we would have a more just