Plato's Allegory Of The Cave Summary

Due to a lack of primary sources from the time period, much of Plato's life has been constructed by scholars through his writings and the writings of contemporaries and classical historians. Traditional history estimates Plato's birth was around 428 B.C.E., but more modern scholars, tracing later events in his life, believe he was born between 424 and 423 B.C.E. Both of his parents came from the Greek aristocracy. Plato's father, Ariston, descended from the kings of Athens and Messenia. His mother, Perictione, is said to be related to the 6th century B.C.E. Greek statesman Solon. According to Alexander of Miletus quoted by Diogenes Laertius in his "Lives and Doctrines of Eminent Philosophers" his name was Aristocles, son of Ariston, of the deme Collytus. Aristocles was the name of his grandfather: it was indeed customary in that time to give a boy the name of his grandfather. The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BCE, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and has proven to be one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically.

Would reason that it was it was the entirety of their reality, despite the images being only an illusion. This illusion would in essence become the fixture of their reality to the point that if he did try to return to the cave and help the other prisoners, they would hate him, calling him corrupt and delusional because their reality is still limited to the shadows in the cave and would aggressively reject any alternative interpretations of that reality. Even going so far as to kill their fellow prisoner to defend that