valid in today communities as it was in their times. Plato left

us a blueprint etch in stone in becoming an idealistic human

being and righteous community. Through Crito, Apology, and the

Republic, Plato reveals that even though the unjust ideals may be

enticing it will bring a just happiness.

In book VII of The Republic, Socrates speaks with Glaucon

about the analogy of "The Cave". This analogy represents

humanity as being ignorant and uneducated. Unable to

conceptualize or understand beyond what can be seen. People in

the Cave were unable to see anything except the images made that

are cast against the wall which for the most part are false.

This is their reality. Socrates teaches that one must realize

the falseness of the shadows and turn to search for the truth.

One must question the traditions of the community to seek

knowledge. I can relate this to the community I grew up. It was

a community that didn't believe in education as an important tool

to success. I would see generation after generation of people

who would continue the same blindness and not realizing the truth

in knowledge. I was one of the few who wanted more than

source of Truth which makes us see the Forms and understand them.

he listened to the judges and stop questioning the Athenians view

possessions. This refrain of the worldly desires would keep him

filled with courage to be considered courageous. When Reason has

In the Crito, Socrates teaches us once you disobey the law

the fallacy we are living in. I would inform them of a better

laws of the state. He believed the politics in Athens were so

where the four Cardinal Virtues which is Wisdom, Courage,

lay the perfect Beauty, perfect Size, perfect Goodness, etc. A

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