Socrates and Plato used the Allegory Cave to explain the critical thinking skills of common society by explaining what the imagined reality is supposed to be like and what the actual truth is like the real world outside the cave. They believed life was like being in a cave and that’s what life was about and seeing shadows hidden from the truth. These philosophers both believed that this analogy of the people in the cave not understanding the man who told them about the outside life and there’s living things and things you can touch and feel, and the shadows they were seeing were people walking by with animals and crops and those were living people.
The confusion these philosophers described, was an example they were using when they said how they feel when trying to educate the public. They believe us citizens are very hostile and isn’t willing to learn new things based off our ignorance. Plato argued the masses such as us citizens are too stubborn and ignorant to govern ourselves. The Allegory of the Cave was connected to the “theory of forms” also used by Plato that also explained the shadows inside the cave represented the outside world that are flawed reflections of ideal forms such as words as beauty, and flat. The cave was used for questions such as the birth of knowledge, problem of representation and the nature of reality. These philosophers also wanted to grasp the concept that people rather stay in their comfort zone and settle with the knowledge we already know and stick with comfortable allusions and ask us if we are willing to step out and understand the real world no matter the cost of friends and family to gain new knowledge about this world we have no idea about.
My opinion about this analogy created by these philosophers are that the cave represented most of the people in the world today that is trapped and doesn’t know the half of what this world consists of. I believe I am one of these people that knows about life based on what happens in my shell and what I am taught by those around me. I believe I need to go out and experience what other forms of life can te