A largely studied portion of The Republic deals with Plato’s cave allegory. The

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A largely studied portion of The Republic deals with Plato’s cave allegory. The story goes something like this: You, as a person, find yourself within a cave, chained to the ground, facing a stone wall. You cannot stand, and all you know are the images that play out before you, which are the shadows cast by a light source from behind you. You cannot see behind you, but you know that there are others in the cave with you. This is the only state you have ever known. It is your only reality of the world. Plato goes on to explain that then one day, people come and remove your chains, and take you out of the cave. As you can imagine, you are scared and frightful, and thus fight these individuals as they drag you into this new setting. However, over time you learn to accept the larger image of the world around you and come to understand life outside of the cave. You then attempt to go back into the cave to free others.

This story was Plato’s attempt to explain the world around us. Just picture it: You are chained to the ground and all you can see in front of you is a cave wall. There is a light source behind you, which casts reflections on the wall.

What do you think you would think of these reflections? Could they represent family members? Or friends?

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It is not about how i treat them, it is all about what I am going to next. Once i experienced the external world, the conditions, the situations and so on, is I need to bring all these to the external world, or do I made to live there itself in the caves. If not me, some other may bring them to the exteral world by tomorrow if not today or some time later. Hence, it is better to drag them to the external world, introduce them the external world and educate them about it. Of course, I may treat them as my family members only. Because, all we were born the same place, till the time all we were in the caves, by companing each other. Hence, it is my turn to make them to move towards the real world side, and I must proceed it. Man is a social animal, we always need the company of others and we enjoy it. The same is going to be happen in the new world also, I will make them to learn the same.

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