Seneca's Allegory Of The Cave

Having the quality of having experience, knowledge, and overall well judgment. Plato portrays wisdom in the allegory of the cave and it is also shown in Seneca’s “On Liberal and Vocational studies”. In Plato’s reading, “The Republic”, he goes on to describe a gathering of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing an empty wall with nothing on or around it. Seneca explains about how all of these poets and writer had somewhat a background of wisdom due to their virtues before they started their profession, while Plato also mentions that a person who has wisdom but only accepts it to gain advantage over other is looked down upon. Wisdom is shown here as getting out of the cave and seeing things "as they really

Seneca goes on to say in this passage that his views on liberal studies don’t exists. He doesn’t respect the study but he strongly believes that wisdom is key. Then he goes on to ask several questions about how virtue and liberal studies go hand in hand. “Do men teach virtue or not?” He goes on talking about Homer and how he was a philosopher and how he became wise before he had the knowledge of poetry. Agreeing so far, Seneca tells about how all of these poets and writer had somewhat a background of wisdom due to their virtues before they started their profession. Later on in this passage he goes on to describe several virtues and weather or not they can be taught purely through liberal studies. He describes that without liberal studies you don’t get a background of what virtues are and what people’s views of them are. With liberal studies you read a lot about people like you and compare virtues with what you believe. You can just learn a virtue, you have to be exposed to it and see it yourself as it being correct. Liberal studies provide that little background to help you understand several virtues through the books you read. “Do liberal arts studies teach a man such character as this?

Plato believes that education is wisdom and through literary mechanisms such as the Allegory of the Cave he shows the importance of education in achieving enlightenment. Believing that only the philosopher-kings should be educated, for reasons unstated, Plato argued that education enables the philosopher-kings to guide the masses and make good decisions on behalf of the Republic. Defining wisdom is a difficult and often contentious undertaking. Throughout history, important thinkers like Plato provide a different understanding of the purpose of life and of the meaning of wisdom itself. Plato saw wisdom as an external force that could only begin to be seen by human