Because of our lifestyle and our limited knowledge, some times we can not realize the right things and do not understand the right the realty and truth. Apparently, we make many mistakes because what we see, believes and hear are different from, reality and truth. This is the main teaching of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which prisoners chained down in a cave wall, watching projection of shadows on the wall by passing things in front of fire behind them.They reality and they are unable to grasp their overall situation: the cave and images are a ruse, a mere shadow show orchestrated for them by unseen men. At some point, a prisoner escape and he was able to see the situation and realty of out side world and he come back to the others prisoners and explain to them ,what he saw but no one could not understand him because they had knowledge about shadows. Plato's Allegory of the Cave representation of the human condition, the circumstances we as humans presently encounter, circumstances such as conceptual frameworks, or basic beliefs, and our typical behaviors in society. The allegory metaphorically describes our situation as human beings in the world today. In his story, Plato utilizes several key elements to portray his metaphor of the human condition. Plato's image contains pertinent ideas about society that are relevant to my everyday life. Through his reading, I have begun to discover the ideal form, the use of reason over perception to approach, view, and judge all things.
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