Monday, March 21, 2011

blog 5 summarizing what the allegory stand for

In Plato's "The allegory of the cave." socrates tells a story to his student Glaucon to explain humans living underground. Humans neck and legs were chained so that they cant move.Behind them were fired blazing at distance.Humans could see only their shodows or others and also could only see the shodows of the object that were being carried by looking straight at the light they would have pain in their eyes he will not be able to see anything.Socrates continues by saying that the prisoner got used to the light of the outside world and soon after he was thrown back to the cave. At first he couldn’t see inside of the cave because his eyes got adjust to the light from outside the cave. Now that darkness is in his life again he felted lost.

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  1. Ok, but this is the more literal meaning--what does it all mean, do you think?

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