Plato's Realms

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Plato was born in Athens around the year 428 BC and died around the year 347 BC. Plato is one of the famous ancient Greece philosophers. Plato a student of Socrates, who appears as a character in many of his dialogues. Plato is his own world, his work on philosophy, poetic, and mathematics is very influential. He is static and like to reflection. Plato founded the world first University or Academy, the academy devotes to instruction in philosophy, mathematics, and science. Plato’s said there is two realms, the Form realm and Earth realm. The one who found this was Socrates. Plato’s used Myth of the Cave to demonstrate the two realms, the Form realm and the Earth realm. In the beginning of the Myth of the Cave, Plato’s describe there are groups …show more content…

The moment he glare at the fire, his eyes would hurt and made him turn away because he been in darkness for a long time. He slowly turn to the fire and confuse by the reality and truth, because all he was able to see before are the real object of the shadow that cast on the wall. After he grasp how these shadows was cast on the wall, he know that he has mistaken of what he see and hear for reality and truth, he accept those thing he see now are more real, the reality. After he grasp of the reality, he being dragged out of the cave, he been inside the cave of his entire life he might not want to go outside, because he does not want to give up the security of his familiar reality; so he has to be dragged. It will be a painful and difficult step for him to take his journey to the new world, because he been in darkness for long time now after leave the cave everywhere is sunshine. The unchained man journey is upward from the dark cave to the light just like the philosophy activity. The journey that freedman that is upwards and very symbolic of the journey. The moment he walk out the cave, he approach the light outside of the cave he is dazzled, because the object outside of the cave is the object he never seen before, for example: the ground, water, real trees, house and more. It take him some time to slowly adaptive