Blog 4: The Allegory of the Cave

               In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave,” Socrates tells a story to his student Glaucon to explain that people will act rationally in their environment, if they know the truth, not only put effort themselves to know it but also “the immediate source of reason and truth in the intellectual.” Socrates create a story about the prisoners who was born in cave and chained their necks and legs not to move and look their back. They will be set up to see only shadows in their entire lives, and also they don't have a chance to know what they are seeing. After that, Socrates want to see what nature will come, so he released prisoner , and let prisoner know as what he see out side is real and what he see inside the cave was an illusion. When the prisoner was told to look straight at the light, at first he will approach to the objects see and later he will clearly see it in reality. On the contrary, Socrates states that when the prisoner is forced to look at the direct sun light, he will not see any thing which called reality. Moreover, Socrates states that if the prisoner grow accustomed in order which is let him know the shadow best,and the reflection of objects in water,and objects themselves. Last of all he will able to contemplate himself as when he see the reflection of sun in the water, he will know the real sun exists. I agree with an author that our thinking processes are rationally or not are depend on the environment where we grow up, and the intellectual reason for truth.

                Mostly it is happening while parenting kids because all of the parents do not want their kids in to being in the danger. So, they always solve problems in their own ways which they think it will harm their kids. For example , some aggressive parents might hit at their kids when the kids try to reach cookie jar which placed on the top of refrigerator. In reality that parent worried about their kid will get hurt from falling jar on their head, but the kids dont know that truth, and their parents don't give specific reason, so they might think that they got punishment because of they try to reach to cookie jar. If the kids keep just like similar untruth reasons in their whole lives, their rationally thinking process will delay.

               Further more, now a day most of adults are competing each other at drinking. They challenges each other as whoever drinking the most is a winner. According to dialogue of Socrates “Better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than think as they do and live after their manner?” They don't really know the truth of good and bad, they encourage and cheer each other at the wrong things.

               In conclusion, people can think more rationally, when they will grow up under right instructions, and get explain the truth reasons for what they are doing.