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Piety In Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

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Plato uses the Allegory of the Cave to illustrate how philosophy is the only passage towards his form of piety. When entering the light or viewing reality, the eyes or soul perceives the light to be a new world even though it is the same world but viewed through a form. The soul becomes excited at the newfound knowledge. When going back into the cave, it is hard for the person with the newfound understanding to view the world like he once had. He knows a reality greater than the world of just shadows or the material world and is unable to simply go back to the thinking of the prisoners where they only believe in the false things they are shown. Plato believes that Gods want humans to purely love knowledge and seek it in order to obtain the
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