Plato s Allegory Of The Cave - 910 Words

Humankind was created with an innate curiosity about the world it inhabits. Do we know what reality is? The meaning of knowledge? The meaning of life? One might tackle the idea metaphorically. Explaining existing as a journey down the road. Or one who is diligent about understanding what things makes up the world. An example, as a kid, a curious person would take things apart like a piano and sometimes we put it back together. Building creative confidence in people requires strategy and time, and that’s what unlocks the nature within them to reach their potential. Allegory is to reveal a hidden meaning, normally a moral, based on fictional stories. Plato Allegory of the Cave reminds us that the theory of Forms is real and suggests†¦show more content†¦To correlate with Cronin’s statement, in Plato’s Cave, the soul is the place we do a lot of the thinking using true knowledge with perfect ideas. The body is separate from the mind and it desires phys ical things such as the aesthetics. For example, the shadows on the wall creates this illumination in the mind where the prisoners perceive them as perfect ideas. In Cronon’s essay, In Search of Nature, he breaks down the definition of nature with different ways of defining and comparing nature. To name a few, each representing different views from the population and their perception of nature. Cronon describes nature as naà ¯ve reality. He argues that people refer to nature as simplistic and unsophisticated. In contrast to Plato’s theory of Forms, these commoners cannot even see the real object itself. They see these shadows passing on the wall from the fire that keeps changing and flickering. These unenlightened prisoners are undoubtedly consistent with the opinion centric culture. In other words, the prisoners have different notions about the shadows but unable to support with facts or reasons behind their opinions. Another category Cronon describes as nature as a moral imperative. According to Cronon, â€Å"one need not travel a very great distance in speaking of ‘the nature of x’ to get from