Phil 404 Journals

The Allegory of the Cave is a story about a group of humans who were living in the bottom of an underground cave. The humans were restricted in every way that they were chained to prevent them from looking towards the top of the cave where the exit and a fire was found. The fire by the exit made it possible for creatures and animals to cast a shadow on the back wall that the …

…looks like and even the people they associates with. It is possible to find a reasonable man of power in a pair of shorts and a plain shirt, as well as an ambitious pauper who steals designer clothes and wears them out. It is not of good moral that a person, judge another. Appearance is nothing but an illusion that anyone can make. So to judge by such an illusion makes a man a fool.