Plato's 'Cave Allegory'

The son of a wealthy and aristocratic family, Plato (427-347 B.C.) was preparing for a career in politics when the trial and eventual execution of Socrates (399 B.C.) changed the course of his life. He abandoned his political career and turned to philosophy, opening a school on the outskirts of Athens dedicated to the Socratic search for wisdom. Plato's school, then known as the Academy, were the first university in western history and operated from 387 B.C. until A.D. 529, when it closed by Justinian (McQuaire 2010, 242).

People from very ancient times until today, we imprisoned in our bodies through the delusions, hallucinations, and illusions we created the self-contentedness, the desire for acquisition and power, individualism, indifference to others, clinging only to our physical needs. We commanded by the complacency of our 'eaftouli' and unquestioning obedience to what we are as real as the only option for our lives. To know the truth, must be cast off the shackles of the senses and the shackles of various rulers, leaving and perceive only copies and deceptive shadows of reality (Watt 1997, 12).

There comes a time, however, that some captors manage and get rid of the influence of sensory and doctrines and get to know the truth, based on evidence they provide only the reason and clear thinking. These people are the philosophers and the "educated", the educated, that education shows them the way how, xeglistrontas through the various doctrinal nets, escape the fate of desmoton the cave.

Besides the world of the cave, and what is happening in so granted, to not generate the slightest doubt about whether it is true. But, what happens in our own reality and factual data are only what the media tell us, what we learned in school, what we perceive with our senses but with ...