Can Platos Allegory of the Cave Be Applied to Today?
Plato had many different ideas on human behavior and philosophy. Sometimes it’s hard to understand his ideas and where he comes from on his ideas. Many things he thought can be applied to today’s society while others can’t. His book The Republic is full of ideas from what the meaning of justice is to the Allegory of the Cave, which is probably be Plato’s most famous theory. The Allegory of the Cave was able to be applied and discussed in his time, but does the Allegory of the Cave really apply to today’s society? Does it still fit to describe human behavior? First what is the Allegory of the Cave? Plato’s theory on the Allegory of the Cave is somewhat complex, but simplistic at the same time, he discusses it in about the middle of The Republic about page 224. The Allegory of the Cave is that we are chained to a wall (all facing the wall). Behind us is another wall with figures walking across it, behind that wall is a pit of fire. The firelight casts shadows upon the wall in front of th
