Hypothesis: Most people live in ignorance most of the time.
Definitions:1)Ignorance - Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed2)Allegory - A figurative discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances3)Plato's "Republic" - a dialogue in which Plato explores what an ideal society would be like4)Reality - The state or quality of being real; truth; fact; that which is real as opposed to that which is imagination or pretense.
Explanation: Like Socrates, Plato believed most of us live in ignorance or most of the time. The worst of this situation is that we do not even know we are ignorant. Everyday we get ready for what the day has to bring to us. Most of us follow a steady routine that follows the day. When the day is over, we go to bed and do it all over again for the rest of our lives.
Detail of The School of Athens by Raffaello Sanzio...
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English: The School of Athens (detail). Fresco, St...To us this is reality. We perceive reality to what we only know. According to Plato, there is only one way to know reality. Plato believes that you must relay on your reason rather than on your senses, your untested opinions, or your feelings. "Reason will not deceive you." Plato says. With it, you will be able to distinguish what is real from what is not.
Proofs: To illustrate this point, Plato asks us to imagine a cave. The inhabitants are chained hand and foot, and their heads are in a fixed position so that they can only see the wall in front of them. On this wall shadows appear, and the prisoners assume these shadows are reality. This is the only reality they know sense birth. As he explains in this Allegory, Plato lets us know that a fire burning at the cave's entrance...
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Philosophy is always a hot potato, one that could drive people to far edges of what ever they get into (if you read it and ponder it alone, to insanity; if in a group to a verbal or even physical conflict). So opinions can be given regarding this matter. If we are prisoners to our senses, if we think the world is something it is not, and yet our eyes can not be opened, cause our eyes can not see the true colors, than what is the use of knowing that we do not know and will never know? If you can never taste, see or hear the true side of things, than why do you need to? It's just enough for you to live that life thinking red is red, not blue, cause you can not do anything about it. If there is nothing around us, than why should we seek to find that out? Living a lie is better than not living at all (a matter of opinion). Or even wasting your life worrying about the emptiness of the world, cause the clock is not stopping. Live the life the way you see it, the way you sense it, just live it, even if you do not see all the colors of the rainbow.
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