Abstract

Riya Sachdev*

The allegory of the cave is one of Plato’s most famous concepts. He uses the allegory in order to explain in his theory of forms that postulates that despite being unaware of the realm of forms, humans can still think, speak, understand and form rational thoughts. Plato wrote the allegory in order to show the effects and consequences of education. It has also been interpreted in several other ways and has been connected to Plato’s other writings, in particular, with the theory of forms which states that an ideal or pure form of something exists in abstraction, it cannot be experienced through the physical senses but is an abstract representation of flawed things found in the physical realm.