All I might know is how the world appears to me, not how the world actually is. In one way or another, almost every major. And what about you? How do I know that what I experience as pain is also what you experience as pain? You may react as I do, but that need not mean that you are minded like I am, or even that you are minded at all. The Allegory of Cave has become one of the most unforgettable, talked-about moments in the history of philosophy. A bat or a salmon experiences the world very differently to me. Allegory of the Cave Plato - The Allegory of the Cave was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work the Republic to compare the effect of. My mind interprets a certain wavelength as the color red, but another animal or even another person may interpret it as something entirely other, or perhaps not perceive it at all. Our senses are subject to manipulation, as, for example, when a garden designer uses focal points or clever planting to create an illusion of space. But appearances, as we all know, can be deceptive: A stick held under water appears to bend and hot tarmac, when viewed from a distance, looks like sparkling water.
"Seeing is believing," as the saying goes. Socrates And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: Behold human beings. Much of our everyday knowledge comes from the use of our senses, especially sight. In this story Plato, tells that most of us. An allegory refers to a deeper meaning in this story everything is illustrating something else.
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His writings are in the form of dialogues, with Socrates as the principal speaker. The Allegory of the Cave is the story written by the Greek philosopher Plato, who was the founder of the Platonist school of academy and thought. Plato, in his classic book The Republic, from which the Allegory of the Cave is extracted, says the most important and difficult concepts to prove, are the matters we cannot see, but just feel and perceive. But, as I argue in my new book, Hypersanity: Thinking Beyond Thinking, even if we are not being radically deceived, it is not at all clear that we can have any knowledge of the world. Unlike his mentor Socrates, Plato was both a writer and a teacher. Plato's allegory is a depiction of the truth, and he wants us to be open-minded about change, and seek the power of possibility and truth.