Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave

Too busy to blog, so I shall paste this thing I did for KI here. At least its a proper post, you won’t want to hear me ranting about the lack of time and how I’m going to die because I don’t understand this thing about physics and that thing about math.

Note to potential ‘plagarisers’ or people who are researching and stumbled upon this page (surely there are considering the frequency at which people google for sample essays on this— people like myself too): I don’t mind you copying anything from here, in fact I like knowing that people find it helpful in some sense but do comment to let me know : D

(But I shan’t post my Commonwealth essay until the end of March when the submission ends :O else there’s a high possibility that an identical essay might appear)

Identify the points Plato made about thinking and learning

Plato’s allegory of the cave illustrates how knowledge is limited or flawed when one’s deductions are made solely based on observations conducted through the senses. To attain a higher level of knowledge ^-1 (complete knowledge cannot ever be reached, we can only get gradually closer to it as the boundary of ‘complete knowledge’ gets further away. Refer to below.), we must be driven by a sense of inquisitiveness when dealing with the unknown. (Eg. If one were one of the prisoners, s/he should question if there is anything outside of this dome-shaped interior and if so what is it. This line of thought should gradually lead to a desire to investigate one’s surroundings. The chains holding them back should further encourage them to pursue the unknown-why is that the creatures on the walls (shadows) are mobile while ‘we’ are not? Where do they come from? Where is that place and can we see it?)