Emoji (npub1yqa…n4ev) My first long post explaining got yeeted because I was phone posting... Also keep in mind that I am talking alot of shit for someone with only a lay person's understanding (I never took a single course on philosophy).
Without getting into details, the parable is actually about philosophy itself. Plato was writing about Socrates, which is why it is written as a dialogue of Socrates. Its pretty on the nose, Plato ends with the suggestion that if such a person escaped the cave and studied the true nature of things, they would be killed. That is what happened to Socrates.
Also, the parable is mostly about the time and pain it takes for the escaped prisoner (the philosopher) to learn about the true nature of things.
I have seen this Allegory used so much to malign the fact that normies sre blind to how things are. I think that misses the point that the job of philosophy is to go back to the cave and explain this (even if it seems to be in vain). Also, this process takes more contemplation than one semester of philosophy at a state run college. I dont know if you can tell, but I hatr liberal arts majors who think they know anything when they really dont. They are unskilled white collar workers. Only useful to push the agenda of their managers.
Obviously, Plato frames this parable according to his belief in the Theory of Forms. The highest knowledge being "the Good." Studying the fske obiects in the cave and the fire is studying mathmatics and natural science. The shadows on the wall are things as observed by the five senses. However, most people who use this allegory would not want anything to do with what Plato actually believed.
Okay, that is my half-witted rant. I am just another person staring at shadows on the wall. I wont bore you with the Christian interpretation of Plato (any basic grasp of theology would open your eyes to why Christians like Plato and Aristotle so much, even though they were pagans.
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