Platos Allegory of the Cave and the Non-Material world

It is the boundary of what they believe . Nobody questioned what lies beyond that wall . For them , there is absolutely nothing beyond it . But of course , they are not aware of their own ignorance They don 't even recognize that they had unconsciously situated their own limitations . They were confined inside a box , a box where they unknowingly refused to leave . Imagination stopped upon the wall . In real life , the chain that binds the prisoners is the society and its norms . The society sets rules and laws that prevent those not brave

enough to make their own analysis of the world . The prisoners represent untutored and misled minds such people knew nothing of the source of the shadows (Cohen , 2006 . Combining the above arguments , we can articulate that most of us are prisoners of our own world

The Unchained Prisoner

The story continued when Socrates introduced the concept of freedom One of the prisoners was unchained and forced to see the things that were just behind him all his life . At first he was bewildered , not to mention the exertion of straining his eyes was excruciating . It was hard to absorb all of things at once but given the time and effort , he saw and realized in full light that the shadows on the wall were just inaccurate imitations of the real things (Ebenstein , 2000 . Then he was led outside the cave to see a different source of light , the sun , and similar to his first struggle , he experienced pain upon his eyes while observing it . After adjusting to this whole new world , he then slowly grasped the glaring truth : the source of the shadows came from this wonderful world . The great enlightenment began

What was the force that led the man to the path of enlightenment ? In real life...