Summary Of Plato's Myth Of The Cave

Plato describes, in his analogy of the Myth of the Cave, a cave with chained prisoners watching shadows cast on the back of the wall of the cave. They hear voices and think these voices are coming from the shadows. Thus, believing these shadows are a reality. Plato then describes one of the prisoners becoming free from the chains. Someone then drags the prisoner upward out of the cave. Although he would be blinded by the light of the sun and the movement would be painful, he will be seeing the reality of the world for the first time. He then describes the prisoner being recalled back down into the cave and being ridiculed for his wisdom. Plato wrote this analogy to explain our anatomy, and how we can obtain it through philosophy. What Pluto