1. What is Plato trying to say when he writes that a person who sees the real sunlit world and then returns to the dark cave will seem “ridiculous” to those who have stayed in the dark? Do you think...

1. What is Plato trying to say when he writes that a person who sees the real sunlit world and then returns to the dark cave will seem “ridiculous” to those who have stayed in the dark? Do you think Plato is right?

2. Is Plato assuming that knowledge is always better than ignorance? Is it ever true that “Ignorance is bliss”? So do you think Plato is right or not?