Part one of term paper
Immediately after reading, for the first time, Plato’s Allegory of the Cave I wrote: He has been imprisoned in his ignorance. Once freed, he chooses to stay in his prison of ignorance because this is all he knows and all he wants to know. As written in the text, “People are happy in their ignorance. They resent those who force them to ...

Part two of term paper
... are afraid, why, or is it simply that they are not ready? For the truth and reality both require change. People can only learn and acquire knowledge through reasoning and open-mindedness. I believe that some people just naturally have a higher level of intelligence. People with a lower level of intelligence refuse to except this and therefore deem the others as crazy and try to keep them in the dark as well. This process happens all the time to anyone who publicly tries to change what society ...