Task 3. Reflection on Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Plato's Allegory of the Cave centers on understanding the effect of learning and how knowledge lead us out of obscurity. In his parable, he started by letting us imagine people living in a cave deep underground. Such cavern where the humans are situated, has a mouth that opens to the light above with a passage that exists from this all the way down to the people. He added that these people have lived in such situation from infancy, with their legs and necks bound in chains. The mere reason why they cannot move. All they can do is stare directly forward, as the chains stop them from turning their heads around. He also added that far above and behind them blazes a great fire. Between this fire and the captives, a low partition is erected along a path, something like puppeteers use to conceal themselves during their shows. So basically, these captives lived in darkness all their lives. In the cave, their only truth are...