Question

1. What are some things the allegory suggests about the process of enlightenment or education?

2. The allegory presupposes that there is a distinction between appearances and reality. Do you agree? Why or why not?

3. What sometimes happens to people when the illusion is shattered and reality is revealed? Can you give an example from your own or a friend’s experience?

Answer 1

Answer 1:

The Allegory cave is one of the most popular passages in Western philosophy history. Allegory indicates that education works the same way as well and that enlightenment increases the development of ideas. School restricts the information given to the students but is a world full of the unknown to those learners away from those desk shackles. The people in the cave depict us as a culture, and Plato suggests that we are the prisoners in the cave who just look at the shadows of events. Truth is a very critical aspect of life itself and how we live it. Awareness is important and we cut off our perception of truth by stripping it of ourselves. Such things the allegory suggests about the cycle of salvation or education. Because the escaping prisoner assumed that shadows were real while he was in the cellar. Yet as he came to earth he realized that shadows are real-life representations.

Answer 2:

Yes, I wholeheartedly agree. By perception, there is a difference between appearances and reality. Your appearance can contradict what is reality. Many times, appearances tell the facts, but the fact is an interpretation of things as well. This reality can only be discerned correctly by thought, not the physical senses. The only truth they think they will ever need is what they see before them because they know nothing else that sparks a desire for something more. Both appearance and truth are illusions in existence that are difficult to explain and distinct from each other. Those are made from fire. Reality is puppeteers live in the cave. This is the distinction that the allegory presupposes between the appearances and fact. It comes to a point that it becomes their reality as the prisoners in the cave they have been chained since childhood are their own shadow so their reality. That also happens in life, we become so stuck in our illusion that we believe it to be true.

Answer 3:

Hope use to offer the people many advantages, but keeping those expectations up and living vicariously in those delusions makes them delusional. It's not a present experience at this point if the reality hits them. Illusions make you believe false and have no chance of keeping your hopes up. Ex: A person believing he 'd be employed soon based on his academics and the reality being the severe condition of a recession going on. According to my experience, school is shackling students ' minds by providing only a limited amount of education the teachers are giving. We are drawn into a routine in which, like most things in society, we become relaxed. There is also a disappointment, but the illusion is so perfect that our disappointment automatically kicks when it is broken by the truth.