Understanding of Discoveries: Myth of the Cave by Plato

Ever since the beginning of time, man has questioned his way of thinking again and again in order to rationalize his thoughts and form new concepts or principles. Some tend to hold on to those ideals and choose to disregard the new, unfamiliar ways. The Myth of the Cave is one such story where history yet once again repeats itself. The reference is made to Socrates, who was killed by people of Athens for exploring …

…learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world becoming into that being..." (Plato, 427). WORK CITED Plato. "Myth of the Cave." The Little Brown Reader. Ed. Marcia Stubbs, Sylvan Barret, and William E. Cajn. 9th Ed. New York: Longman, 2003. 423-429.