Plato uses the myth of the cave to address several important concerns of philosophy, the role of the philosopher and his journey to Knowledge. The story presents a group of men living in an underground cave. They are chained to a wall such that they can only see the back wall of the cave. There is only one entrance to the cave, and it is behind them on top of the wall they are chained to. When objects pass by the entrance of the cave, they can see their shadows on the back wall. One day, one of them gets loose and crawls his way to the outside. When he exits the cave, the light outside blinds him at first. Eventually, his eyes adjust and he is able to see all the amazing sights. He remembers his cave mates and wishes to share his new sights with them. When he goes back inside, he cannot see the shadows on the wall anymore because his eyes are adjusted to the brightness outside. When he tries to convince the others to break free and join him on the outside, they resist because they think the outside world has blinded him. When he pushes further, they think of him as dangerous and plot to kill him.
             Using this parable, Plato proposes that there are two different worlds. The first is the world that we live in, the world of sensory experiences, the world of "being", which is under constant change. The second world is the Real world of Forms, the world of "becoming", which is eternal and unchanging. Plato claims the cave is the world of sensory experiences. When living in the cave, the men believed the shadows of objects to be the actual objects. Since they had never been in presence of the real objects, their senses led them to believe that they were seeing the real objects. The men were only able to see the object when it passed in front of the cave. They had no control over how long the object remained in sight or which object would appear next. Plato claims that since the shadow that is present...