Question

How were the Impediments to Ethical Decision-making portrayed in Plato's Allegory of the Cave? What specific character or objects in the allegory correspond to the specific impediment to ethical decision-making? brainly​

Answer 1

Impediments to Ethical Decision-making portrayed in Plato's Allegory of the Cave are explained through Ethical Philosophical Discourse. The specific characters corresponding to it are - The Sun, Prisoner, and the Cave itself.

Explanation:

• Plato’s work 'allegory of the cave' is a classical philosophical thought-based experiment intended to analyze our preconceptions about epistemology – i.e the study of knowledge and its ethical basis.
• Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" is a hypothesis on the human idea of conception. The main principles of Plato are that knowledge received through the use of the senses is nothing more than an estimate or an opinion. He also claims that true knowledge can only be obtained by philosophical ethics driven discourse.
• In this work, we come across a handful of specific characters or objects that correspond to ethical decision-making - for example, the symbol of the cave signifying a hidden world, the sun implying the concept of freedom which helps the 'prisoner' yet another character conceptualize an outside world.