“The allegory of the cave” summed up in my words is describing the story of a group of people, or society, in which one leaves what he has been shown to know and is exposed to new things and becomes enlightened with the outside world. It basically just explains how there was a real and different world beyond what these people knew and thought was real. Because they were nurtured in a specific environment and never shown to anything else, the fake shadows that were always displayed in front of them was their perception of reality. In my opinion I don’t think that Socrates believed that everyone’s reality was necessarily real. He implies that there is knowledge beyond our understanding that we won’t ever know exists if we refuse to go out and seek it. I have to say that I absolutely agree with his philosophy due to the fact that not everything we know is all that is out there. We grow up with a limited amount of knowledge depending on our education and if we decline to bring ourselves out and beyond that, there is a world that we will always remain ignorant to. It is all about the choice of wanting to acquire knowledge and if whether or not we are able to accept whatever the true reality is and what we decide to do with that knowledge in the end.
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