Blog #4 "The Allegory of the Cave" (Summary)

The story The Allegory of the Cave by Plato is about teacher telling a story to his student. The story begins by humans knowing nothing but walls of caves and the shadows of each other. The human’s are chained up only hearing voices of grads. The teacher then brings the idea of exposing the prisoner out into the open world. He mentions how the prisoner’s sight would hurt and, how he would suffer from the only knowledge he knows. Brining the prisoner back to the cave the teacher tells how the prisoner would share with the rest what he had experienced and knowing only what they know whether the prisoner was telling the truth or not, the rest of the prisoner would not believe him. Plato uses the example of the prisoners experience to help us understand that one believes what he know; and what he knows is what he believes and nothing more. I agree with Plato’s message, you believe what you know.