Going back to the parable, we can understand the meanings of the “story”. The Cave itself would symbolize people who think that knowledge comes from our senses of the world. This would be empirical knowledge. The cave signifies that people who believe in empirical knowledge, are in a sense, locked in a misunderstanding of their senses. From there, we can see that the shadows to Plato represent the views of people who believe empirical evidence guarantees true knowledge. The meaning behind the game would be that one single person could not be a master of something if this “master” only knows stuff in the empirical world. Since the empirical world is necessarily “fake”, then this master actually knows nothing, because he only believes what he sees, and not what is actually true. If we go back to the prisoner who freed himself, we can say that he would be characterized as a philosopher, someone who tries to find the actual truth on his own and give others insight of his
Going back to the parable, we can understand the meanings of the “story”. The Cave itself would symbolize people who think that knowledge comes from our senses of the world. This would be empirical knowledge. The cave signifies that people who believe in empirical knowledge, are in a sense, locked in a misunderstanding of their senses. From there, we can see that the shadows to Plato represent the views of people who believe empirical evidence guarantees true knowledge. The meaning behind the game would be that one single person could not be a master of something if this “master” only knows stuff in the empirical world. Since the empirical world is necessarily “fake”, then this master actually knows nothing, because he only believes what he sees, and not what is actually true. If we go back to the prisoner who freed himself, we can say that he would be characterized as a philosopher, someone who tries to find the actual truth on his own and give others insight of his