lity. These are the philosophers. The capacity to learn exists in the soul. Humans need to use their whole soul to learn, not just use their eyes. Plato writes, the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from the darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being. (AC in Jacobus 320).According to Plato, human beings misperception about reality also affects ones spiritual growth. When the slave makes the ascent and sees the sun, he might mistake it for God. Plato writes, He will then argue that this [the sun] is he, the guardian of the visible world the cause of all things (AC in Jacobus 318). Having moved from darkness into light, the slave comes to the conclusion that this bright light must be God. Plato argues that ones soul holds knowledge of what is true. When one learns, one simply remembers. People originate from Heaven where they knew the truth. In the Bible it states, Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day (Corinthians II, 4:16). One is renewed day by day by remembering things that their soul knows, but that they have forgotten. Plato discredits a government run by the people in the cave who are uneducated and fight with one another about shadows only and struggle for power a great good. (AC in Jacobus 322-323). Plato argues that the ones who have made the ascent must govern, for they know what is real and understand that the shadows are only dreams. Plato says it is difficult to go back down into the darkness after one has seen the light, but one must. They must educate the slaves about the world above, so the slaves understand that power is not the great good. Even though it will be ten times harder to readjust to the darkness after descending into the cave again they will see t...
