Blog #5

In this excerpt from The Republic, Socrates is explaining a scenario in which people are unenlightened. In the story there are humans, possibly prisoners, chained to walls in an underground cave with little light protruding out of a hole. It is figured that these men, living in darkness the majority of their life; have not seen the true light of the sun. Granted if they have, they would face severe pain because the brightness that they could not see. When one man finally sees the light and tries to explain what he had seen, nobody believes him. The single individual represents En