Policarpio, Aeriel Kerstine D.

BSOA-32A

What insight did you derive from watching the allegory of the cave?

A philosophical idea attributed to Plato is the Allegory of the Cave. He

contrasts the effects of knowledge and beliefs on human life in this idea. In his
writings, he puts forth the idea that men are prisoners in this world (the cave),
and that what most people see as their realities are really just shadows. The
prisoners believed that the cave was the world and that the shadows they were
seeing represented the truth. As a result, they became accustomed to believing
that the cave was the only place their lives existed.
The Allegory of the Cave by Plato helped us to become more mindful of this
reality. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave may serve as a wake-up call for us to realize
that we are the prisoners of our own minds and that we need to start living with
greater purpose, away from all the diversions of the shadows. We shouldn’t limit
ourselves in such a limiting environment and start to believe that the world and
the reality is endless. Start writing a new version of reality for yourself. After
discovering the truth, spreading this new ideology to others becomes your
mission in life.