Plato’s_Republic_-_The_Three_Great_Analogies

Plato’s Republic - The Three Great Analogies Plato’s Republic - The Three Great Analogies The Allegory of the Cave, like most things in philosophy, can be interpreted in many different ways. It basically says that people are chained to the wall of a cave and they have nothing to look at but shadows on the wall that are provided by another. This is all that they know and have never been out of the cave. The main point of the Allegory of the Cave is to give an example of the way that we all live our lives. Except for a chosen few like Christ, Gandhi and maybe even Socrates, no one is really enlightened, or has seen what life is all about. The remainder of us see what we think is reality when actually it is the "shadows" of true reality. The Shadow makers represent the opinions makers, or the people that make us look at the world the way we do. An opinion maker can be anyone, a priest telling you how God wants you to live, ones parents teach them morals or the television. These shadows make us think that this is the way to live and that this is what is important in the cave, reality, way, plato, true, shadows, knowledge, imagining, chains, allegory, world, shadow, out, live, know, death, break, thinking, think, stage, something, really, line, just, intelligence, belief, because, wall, three, things, says, people, one, object, next, mean