The Importance Of Education In Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

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In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato epistemology distinguished between two groups of people mistaken the sensory knowledge for the truth they are seeking and those who do see the truth. The exploring themes in the contexts consisted of knowledge, perception, and the importance of education. Inside the cave is very dark because there is little light in it and objects are hardly being seen. There are some chained people on their necks as well as feet, these chained people cannot move easily, somewhat these people were deemed as prisoners. Similarly, there is also another world outside the cave world, but between these two worlds, a wall is raised. On the wall, many other people move with different things on their hands and their shadows fall in the cave world. These “prisoners” who were inside the cave cannot raise their head completely, so they only see the shadows as an illusion of what an outsider world looks like and that they believed the illusion. In the outer world, there is light, and everything is clearly visible. If one of the chained people was to be released from the cave and if he was to be taken to the outer world that, he would not to able to see anything or any objects at first because his eyes dazzle in the light. If he was to stay in the world where he can see, he begins to slowly and gradually to identify everything. He becomes a realization that the world outside the cave is the reality of what looks like to be a reality, while the cave is somewhat a

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