The Allegory of the Cave is a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon, the former telling us what he believes about reality and how we have a false interpretation of reality. ... Socrates starts his story by describing an image which is pointedly "strange", according to Glaucon. ... Was Socrates merely warning us that the things we perceive as reality are just shadows? ...
Plato was a philosopher who believed in higher education and was curios about the way humans learned. Socrates was Plato's mentor who had a major influence on Plato's life. Therefore, it led Plato to writing The Republic. In here, Plato stresses his belief in the search for truth, and reality, inst...
In the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans, there was a growing unsettlement with traditional religion. People were becoming less accepting, taking less for granted, and wanting more; more knowledge and more answers. A new age of questioning was surfacing. Searching for alternative answers and...
