Plato
...usion. It’s to say that today we see only what we are let able to see. But once that one of the human beings are turned around, that person will feel pain because the person is not use to seeing the objects but only at the shadows that were displayed on the wall. Seeing the light directly hurts his eyes and he will have to get use to seeing the light, which represents the truth. Once let into the light, the person then receives wisdom and sees things fro what they really are. After being in the “upper world” the person must then go back to the underground so that he may teach or show the other human beings what he has remembered. For a soul doesn’t learn it only remembers the knowledge that it once had according to Plato. He is sent back to the den to restore unity and is used for binding up the State. Overall Plato doesn’t believe in evil only in good. So an action with flaws is a lower level of good as discussed in class that a person who steals commits a lower level good because the motive is good. For me this allegory makes perfect sense because I like the fact that he mentions people being in the darkness and about the light on the ...