Allegory of the Cave
(Plato's Cave)
Platon says that some people lives in a dark cave since they
were born. They are prisoners because they were fettered. They cannot turn back
to see what happen outside of the cave. There are some shadows of things
(animals, spectecla, cave dweller…) on the wall via to fire and they suppose that is reality. One day, one of
them go out from the cave and realises the real source of light and shadows. He
comes across with the sunlight. After that he returns to cave and he tries to
explain outside of cave to prisoners. The prisoners don’t get it because they
never go out. Person who is going outside is philosopher.
Philosopher gets rid of own chain and try to explorer source of unknown.
According to Platon, chained people are mass people. Cave
sybolised society. Chains are rules like a blocker for mass people. Shadow is
dogmatics facts which were excaptable by society. Those prevent the freedom of
people. Person who deal with these situations, deserves the meaning of reality.
