Plato

Plato tries to explain the significance of knowledge and knowledge can be used by others to exploit us. He condemns ignorance stating it as a major lead to the enslavement of our common sense. When humans embrace ignorance they create a barrier to their thinking capacity and their understanding of this world. It limits their brain to the ordinary notion of the world that has existed over the years. This creates a venue for others to come in and subject us to slavery by controlling us. We are focded to believe in the images they make without any objection. However to overcome this slavery we need to see this images for what they are and not what they want us to see. By being critical of these images also frees us from this slavery

Knowledge

Prisoners

Ignorance

In his account Plato tries to explain that apart from having knowledge we also have a sort of freedom that is got away from knowledge. According to Plato ignorance brings no delight rather it brings out a form of slavery and dependence. We become prisoners to the extent that we are unable to understand the true order of normalcy, the extent to which our common sense acquits with the world. By acquiring knowledge we are able to free ourselves from the conventional understanding of the world. In the account we also derive the fact that ignorance can cost us our freedom. Plato depicts the prisoners as confounding reality for the images being painted by others. The resulting effect is that these people who paint the pictures in us and we believe them have the ability to control us. The only way we can free ourselves from this imprisonment is being critical by distinguishing the real images from the false images, by that we are not subject to this enslavement.