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Post #3
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In "Allegory of the Cave", Plato discusses the cave, which represents institution that make me who I am today as truth and reality plays a big role in the short story, it as well plays a role in my life. As I was growing up as a strong buddhist believer my family and I were raised to never look an older person in the eye as we speak to them as respect to my culture. But in reality people perceive that as rude. The concept of being respectful against the concept of following your beliefs. Therefore, this is how two concepts differ from seeing the truth against ones belief. Getting older makes me see the truth and the concept that looking an older person in the eye makes them feel like your actually grasping information and listening to them. Now that I step into reality and step out of my beliefs of my childhood cave, choosing the route to help me see that its okay to look a older person in the eye.
"To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images." (13)
Glaucon and Socrates forms an imagery against the reality and truth outside the cave which we are blinded by the false descriptions in our heads. As we perceive the images against the actual truth of being respectful and making eye contact with a person shows that we are listening. We are blinded by false images and thoughts against whats reality offers us in the real world.
