Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

Dignity is something that each and every human being is born with; a great sense of worth, and respect. It is the quality of being honorable and valuable, being the best possible version of yourself. Everyone is given the equal right to exist in this world with a high nobility, and not one person has more of a right than anyone else. This dignity cannot be taken away; it simply takes one’s desire to live their life to their fullest potential to achieve, and maintain this state. It is the actions taken by an individual that affect a person as a whole, and make a difference. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, The Book of Genesis, and Aristotle’s Nichometrican Ethics, ideas are portrayed in a way that gives us a further understanding of this concept.

Plato is a well known Greek philosopher who created the Allegory of the Cave to convey that everyone should seek knowledge and education throughout their lives. He believed every person is capable of this, however, it comes down to whether a person has the desire to learn or not. The action of achieving education in life is the formation of character and every person should have the desire to make a difference in not only themselves, but our society as well. We as human beings are prisoners in this dark, confined cave that Plato identifies. The cave is the world of sight, and we are blind to the outside sometimes. It takes one to have dignity to “escape” the cave and achieve one’s knowledge and education. In this cave, the prisoners see shadows that represent a false vision of truth, yet ignorance covers

Dignity plays a constitutive role in Aristotle’s Nichometrian Ethics. His belief was that the main goal in life is to achieve full happiness. If given dignity, one will be in the pursuit of happiness. As a philosopher, he tells humans what our lives consist of. Everyone is unique and has their own traits, but we are all born with dignity. His own conception of dignity consists of having these moral virtues, which is a mentality on how to behave in a correct manner. These virtues are formed in one by an individual's actions. “The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life” (Aristotle). If you are a virtuous person, your happiness is fully achieved, therefore flourishing with dignity. “Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act because where it is in our power to do, lies in our power not to act...” (Aristotle). It is all about being a sensible person and God grants dignity to each and every person, giving us the power to pursue or achieve whatever one desires. Therefore, all humans God made should be in the pursuit of happiness, and together forming a state of peace and