Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET December 2019 Political Science
Theory of form and allegory of caves is related with:
APlato ✓ Correct
BAristotle
CMachiavelli
DHobbes
Correct answer: (A) Plato — Both the Theory of Forms and the Allegory of the Cave belong to Plato.
Explanation
★Both the Theory of Forms and the Allegory of the Cave belong to Plato.
★The Theory of Forms holds that eternal, perfect Ideas are the true reality and that the visible world is their imperfect copy.
★The Allegory of the Cave, in the seventh part of the Republic, shows prisoners chained before shadows who mistake them for reality.
★When one prisoner is freed and turned to the sunlight he grasps the real objects and finally the sun, which stands for the Form of the Good.
★The freed prisoner is the philosopher whose duty is to return and enlighten the others, justifying the rule of the philosopher-king.
★The cave is read together with the divided line and the simile of the sun as Plato's three connected images of knowledge and the Form of the Good.
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