Allegory of the Cave
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What is truth? What is the truth, of what truth is? There are many answers to this question. Each answer may lie different, inside of each person. Only you know what truth is to you. In this essay I will describe what truth is to me, how I verify truth, and whether I believe truth to be good or bad. I will then compare and contrast my idea of truth, to that of Platos truth, from his ideas in “Allegory Of The Cave.”
First of all we have, what is truth to me? Well for my definition of truth we can turn right to Mr. Webster and see that he says, that truth is:
“sincerity or honesty”
To me truth is exactly what you think or how you feel. Truth to me is not veiled by anything, making the real truth either more positive or negative. Truth is simply whats on your mind, exactly how you feel, its just plain and simple and right down to the point. How do you arrive at my kind of truth? Well its simple: as stated before, you simply tell how you feel, being both honest and sincere.
Now the tougher part, how is truth verified? Truth is verified by whether its honest and sincere by who, or where it came from. This means for example, is a person telling you really that they like your new haircut, or they just saying “yes” they do, to avoid a possibly touchy moment. Truth can only be verified by whether or not it was genuine and from the heart.
This test of verification is the only test to see whether or not the “truth” was genuine. How else could something be true, if where it came from was not genuine itself? To wrap it all up, truth is simply whether or not a person is saying what is at the bottom of their heart or not.
Now we move onto, is truth all good, like Plato believes, or can some truth be bad, evil and ugly? I personally