Allegory of the Cave
Stuff / Allegories / Allegory of the Cave - Plato Plato , in his classic book The Republic , from which the Allegory of the Cave is extracted, says the most important and difficult concepts to prove, are the matters we cannot see, but just feel and perceive. Plato ’s allegory is a depiction of the truth, and he wants us to be open-minded about change, and seek the power of possibility and truth. Did You Know? … that the Hollywood hit, “The Matrix” mirrors Plato ’s Allegory of the Cave in a number of ways. From the cave that represents the matrix that humans are trapped and imprisoned in, to the machines who controlled what humans saw or heard as the puppeteers who cast the shadows of objects on the wall. Plato was a Greek philosopher and mathematician who is said to have laid the basic foundation of Western philosophy and science. His classical philosophies on human nature reveal the basic truth as well as flaws in the psychological evolution of mank...