Myth Of The Cave Analysis

Cave In Book VII of the Republic, Socrates and Glaucon talk about the Myth of the Cave when they are understanding the word “good.” This story is about people being chained inside of a dark cave, unable to move, not even their heads. The only thing that the people are able to see are the shadows, which, to them, are the realist things they know exists. One day, a person discovers a way out of the cave; the person who escaped most likely struggled to get out and once they were free, they were blinded by the brightness of the sun. After the person’s eyes adjusted to the light they were able to see real objects, not just shadows, and they learned that they haven’t been looking at real objects the whole time they were in the cave, they were

When the person escapes from the chains, he realizes that he is ignorant on his ignorance. He learns that there is more to existence than these shadows. The struggle to get out of the cave is the person become more knowledgeable; once the person is out of the cave and his eyes are adjusted to the light, he has now been educated, which means he is good. The people in the cave are still ignorant, because the educated person good, he will help the others become educated. This will not be easy, the educated persons sight won’t be accustomed to the dim light, so he will have trouble seeing, also the ignorant people will be hard to help because of how ignorant they are they will call the educated person ignorant and slander him. Because the educated person is good, he will help anyways. He will educate them on their ignorance, and he will help them hike through the cave, educating them every step of the way, all because that is what a “good” person does. Some won’t make it to the light, but the ones who do are now educated and considered to be

He is now retired from playing soccer but because of his greatness and knowledge of the game he has chosen to become a coach. Zinedine Zidane is educating the players of the team of Real Madrid, in Spain. It could be considered necessary for him to become a coach for a few reasons. One reason is that there is a possibility of a player even greater than he was, because of Zinedine Zidane passing along his knowledge to the younger player, and the players hard work and dedication, the player could possibly become better than Zinedine Zidane which would be something great to witness. Another reason that its necessary for Zinedine Zidane to teach soccer is that it is his responsibility to help the ignorant soccer players learn some skill. Zinedine Zidane is to soccer as a philosopher is to knowledge, philosophers obtain knowledge and impart the knowledge amongst other people, Zinedine Zidane obtained the skill of soccer and now it is his time to teach