Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” illustrates the movement of a man from ignorance to enlightenment, and then reveals man’s inability to ever return to the unknowing and innocent state in which he...

Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” illustrates the movement of a man from ignorance to enlightenment, and then reveals man’s inability to ever return to the unknowing and innocent state in which he existed before. Plato believed that when someone lives a sterile life, wherein only his/her understanding is the only one that exists, and does not contribute anything, that life is a not one worth living, as stagnation is the only thing that exists. A life that is worth living, to Plato, is one where the pleasures of learning, honor, and money exist in abundance. He believed that philosophers have the best lives.