Patos republic Essay Example

fact that Homer's existence is still questioned today, all Greeks began to study these texts, keeping them as the best heroic epics of ancient Greece till the date.

Now I want to talk about the myth of the cave, Plato, wrote in his book this myth that I would like to interpret more as a metaphor. Basically this myth is a representation of human life, in which it talks of several men placed in a cave from the day of their birth, without any knowledge of the outside world, bound by feet, hands and heads, so that they cannot move or turn their heads to any direction, they can only see a wall in front of them, behind is a small wall and behind the wall there is a bonfire, people from the outside world sometimes walked in front of the bonfire carrying with them all kinds of objects, so that fire causes their shadows to be reflected in the wall in front of the prisoners. As they don’t know anything else, they believe that these shadows are the real forms of the world, until one of the prisoners is released and taken to the outside world, then this prisoner goes back to the cave and he describes the rest of the prisoners what the outside world really looks like. but they refuse to hear him thinking all he’s talking is a lie the prisoners also refuse to be freed, they would rather stay in a cave forever than to become an “idiot” as their friend. This story is an allegory of the lives of those who seek a truth and finally find it. I see

the prisoners as representatives of all those ignorant people, people without hunger of getting any knowledge.

I am of the opinion that we are all born in the 'cave' and our responsibility with ourselves is to discover how to get out of the cave and break the paradigms that are the ones that chain us to it. Leaving the cave means opening our minds to new perspectives, experimenting with the new and learn from the diversity of the world around us.