Blog entry 5, "The Allegory Of The Cave"

The Allegory of the Cave, written by, “Plato” is a dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon. The story illustrates whether the human being knows the truth or not, and why it is so hurtful to know it. As they are in a cave, livings like animals without freedom of thought or movement. They only see the wall ahead of them. Behind the prisoners, people and objects are crossing the way, and prisoners are only able to see the reflections of the shadows. As the dialogue goes on; one of them escapes from the cave, and he finds the light and follows it, he opens his mind to a new world of subjects, feelings and odors. His fist reaction to this whole world never showing to his eyes before is painful, and then he starts to realize the world was so much more than the deep and darkness cave where he had lived for many years. He returns to the cave and tries to convince his fellow friends of the wonderful world outside of the cave, but they cannot listen to him and neither recognizes him, all they can see is his grotesque shadow and its interrupt echo. He would not want to feel the pain of living in the darkness again. As Socrates told Gloucon; to picture the prisoner back to the cave and to imagine a competition in which he has to show the prisoners the reality of the world, but his conscious about the real world is not quite strong yet, that the prisoners would laugh at him and they would try to kill him. This explains the discussion as; the travel of the individual to find the rational world of philosophy, based on Socrates system of belief, the true always comes out and it will be clarified by determination. As God will illuminate us to find the truth and the man will be cured of his unacknowledged.