This story carries a lesson for the people, the intellectuals, and the leaders. Let us reflect on the allegory of the cave and learn from the lessons it embodies for our state of affairs. Yet, assuming the intelligent possesses courage and compassion for the people, in the end, the truth triumphs and the people will be able to share the truth and get rid of their illusions. This may make him regret coming back and reach the decision that it is better to abandon them or, even worse, trick them into becoming his unquestioning followers. This task is the most difficult one because the cave people have already established their world around shadows and echoes, which makes them doubt the actual truth their former citizen has brought to them. Upon remembering the fellow prisoners in the cave, this person feels pity and decides to descend back to the cave and show the truth to the people. But eventually, the former cave-dweller questions the illusions once taken as realities and grows accustomed to the truth. The reality this person observes for the first time pains the eyes and makes it hard to comprehend. With this background, Socrates wants us to suppose that one of the prisoners or dwellers is released and walks out of the cave. ![]() In the cave, the shadows and the echoes establish reality and truth. When they hear sounds, they assume it is the sound of the shadows. There is a fire blazing outside, and they only see the shadows of the things and people. Thus, they have no way of looking or knowing the existence of a world outside the den. ![]() Socrates paints a picture of people living in a cave since childhood, their hands and necks chained facing the walls so all they see are shadows. Octo() - In Plato’s ‘The Republic’ there is a chapter that treats the idea of truth in relation to the people and their ‘intelligent’ leader.
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