Blog Two

The Excerpt from The Republic also known as the given assignment, The Allegory and The Cave was a conversation amidst Socrates and Glaucon. To accept the truth as is or to believe in the disbelief was the centered focus. The conversation between the two sort of refer back onto us in the sense of either believing everything we come in contact with or like ignorants, stand our ground despite the facts and truth handed to us. Socrates provides Glaucon with an example of human beings forcefully residing within a cave ever since their childhood hence being exposed to the outside world known as "reality".
"And you may further imagine that his instructor is pointing to the objects as they pass and requiring him to name them, - will he not be perplexed? Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?"
This inquires about the prisoner's belief. Whether he would accept what is before him and consider it all facts or he will stray and hiss at it.There are those who cling onto what they know and of course those who do the opposite. To few and possibly the prisoner, ignorance is bliss because it takes you back to where you feel comfortable and what you're only exposed to thus allowing you to only be withdrawn with what you know.