Plato writes a dialoged between two characters, Socrates and Glaucon. In this allorgy according to Socrates, of course, he shares his theory on knowdlged. attempted to spred that knowlege to others. Obstacles he believes one will encounter when he has Glaucon a philosphy on the enlighment of man. Using a hypothetical scenario of prisoners chain into place living in an underground cave with a nothing more then Socrates explains how people in society are prisoners to their own illusion of reality. What they see is what they believe no matter what is presented to them as the truth they will stick to there own interpretation. Plato uses metaphors scuh as a fire being the sun. cave with siliqtes and leave the cave discovering a different truth not nessacaerly omitting their previous one , it is certain he/ she will adapt to this new truth but yet still will have memory of his old habitation therefore want to return to share the new truth with those he/ she grew up with. But because the others living in “the den” are only accustomed to one truth they will more than likely reject this new truth and disown him/her. Socretes believes that in order to let people know your good intensions when sharing knowlgeg one has to remember that reason is a universal perspective.
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