Knowledge is power and it can take many different forms. Knowledge can be use as commodity and be exchange for the knowledge of others. Knowledge can also use as a weapon against lies, deception and ignorance but knowledge can also be use to manipulate the minds others. In the end knowledge is power but it depend on how you use it that is how it value is determine. In the allegory of the cave a story from the Republic by Plato, Socrates tells a story to Glaucon. The show how knowledge can take different forms. In the story a group of men are held imprison a cave, their arms, legs and head are bond by chains and have no knowledge of the outside world. Their only source of entertainment is the shadows on the wall in front of them. One day of the prisoner is set free and find that there an outside world Amazed by what he find he feel that he must share it with the others. However when her return to his comrades and tell let what he saw they believe that he is has gone mad. This story was a way for Socrates describes the process of learning. In the beginning of any process of learning we all are chained down by something it could be stubborn pride, fear or ignorance But once we become free we are amazed what we have learned and we can do if just put are mind to it.
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