Visual Representation of the “Allegory of the Cave”.

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Visual Representation of the “Allegory of the Cave”
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VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF THE “ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE”
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Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................5

VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF THE “ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE”
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Introduction
The ‘Allegory of the Cave’ in Plato’s Republic VII can be seen as the part of the
philosopher’s attempt to validating his demand of the philosopher’s rule rather than a
democratic government. The paper will show how the Allegory stands for the condition of
the world concerning the standing of the philosophers in the world. The theory can also be
deduced from the understanding of ‘Theory of Forms’ by Plato which recognizes forms of
beings as the ultimate reality rather than material things which are identified based on the
perception through senses, the paper aims to bring the understanding of the allegory of the
cave in terms of contemporary issue of American Police Brutality.
Discussion
The allegory presented by Plato presents the imagery of light and dark in terms of
human consciousness and understanding of their exposure to truth. The example of people
living inside the cave can be seen as the representation of people who stays ignorant on the
face of truth and accepts the reality of what they see and accepts on their own (Agrati, 2018).
People bound inside the cave with no access to the reality of the world except for the shadow
and the echoed sound of the movements, and animals are the only source of exposure to
them. It represents the case of the general population whose scope of view was too narrow to
understand the broader point of view of the philosophers.
The light from the Sun which brings about the change in the man leading him to
accept the reality of the things over the shadows inside the cave, which he has spent his life
accepting as the ultimate truth (Castro, 2017). One can see the rhetorical formulation of the
society in which man lives and perceives what he thinks is the right way. The understanding
of the truth, according to Plato, is only the shadow which the general population accepts as
their truth and the man who is finally freed to see the truth understand the universal and the
ultimate light of the Sun is the philosophers. The allegory is the manifesto for his argument