Explain The Allegory Of The Cave

In this paper I will explain the allegory of the cave by Plato. After that I will then describe what it means to myself and then what it meant to Plato. Finally I will describe how appropriate Plato’s allegory is to reality. Hopefully after the reader reads this paper, they will have a better understanding of the Allegory of the Cave. The Allegory of the Cave helps people distinguish the truth about what reality really is. It is a cave in which three prisoners sit tied to rocks that way they can not move and are forced to look at the wall of the cave. The three people have been in the cave since birth so they do not really know what the outside world even really looks like. While they stare at the wall, people outside the cave are constantly walking by carrying objects causing shadows to be cast on to the wall of the cave. The prisoners have never seen these

In my opinion, everyone sees reality differently from his or her perspective. Just like Plato believed, there are two different worlds that people can view their reality from with that either being the “real” world or “virtual” world. I believe the cave represents how people see life and when they escape the cave that is the actual reality of life. No one knows if we are experiencing actual reality or if we are being ran by a computer. Even though everyone has a different definition for knowledge, the overall explanation for knowledge is learning through facts or experience. There are people in the world that fear knowledge, but what many don’t understand is that the lack of knowledge actually causes fear. Yes the people in the caves knowledge would be considered different from mine today in that what they experienced in their reality I would never understand, and they would not get to understand what I am experiencing. No one can experience another’s reality in the fact that we cannot see what another’s reality experience actually