Blog 2: The allegory of the cave

Plato uses the Allegory of the cave to view situations in life where people live in an illusion and remain in pure ignorance. In the early 1500's there was a belief that the earth was in fact flat. Lactantius and Cosmas were the first people to actually theorize the idea that the earth was flat. The theory of the earth being flat lead to the fear that if Christopher Columbus were to sail across the land he would fall off the face of the earth. Fully being aware of the idea he achieved his fear and sailed across the land with no problem. In fact before he set sail he'd  measure the distance he would travel just to make sure he really doesn't "fall off " the face of the earth.

The Christians were most of the believers and their beliefs were unbelievable such as "to the ends of the earth", "the four corners of the world" or "the sun sank into the sea".They in fact thought that they were living in an illusion that the world was flat. Living with such ignorance was  the only thing they can do. It wasnt until during the Cold war where the U.S had a conflict with the Soviet union on who would get the first man to land on the moon. In July 20, 1969 was when the first man on the moon took pictures of Earth and then had actual proof that the world was in fact SPHERICAL.

Lets just say the Earth was flat. There would be many problems with that such as traveling, trading worldwidely, there wouldnt even be no such things as airplanes because if they were to pass a certain point of the earth it would ''fall''.The Christian believers would have never thought of that because they never had a opportunity to see for theirselves and so they just stayed in pure ignorance.

The flat earth theory relates very much to how Plato uses the allegory of the cave to view the situations in life where people live in an illusion. The idea that the earth was just created by shadows is just as insane that the earth was a big flat surface. The believers were obviously in ignorance and the only way to find out something is to go check for yourself.