Leaving the Cave by John Artibello Essay

It is only through a mans deliberate attempt to understand his world and ultimately himself that he is fitted to win a truly meaningful life. True, ignorance saves a person from the airy process of knowing the answers to every difficult question, yet it is ignorance that imprisons the person to what is fiddling and illusory. In a day and age of a market-driven society, people slowly fall into the trap of the same run-of-the-mill desire for material things and for the intensity and vivid colors of the media (Artibello YEAR).Indeed, so much so that their blind shackle to material and physical pleasures prevent them from breaking away of such a cycle. Such a problem is not new but in fact has been addressed by Socrates two thousand years ago. He said that most men cannot see beyond the illusions of life and be stuck with the shallow and false appearances of the world the surface level.This is so because they are the likes of men chained to the ground inside the caves since child birth that they are unable(p) to plumb the true meaning of what they see. However, at a time a person is suffice free to investigate the outside world, he will at once begin to perceive reality in all its overwhelming plenitude, and from in that respect pursue, a life full of meaning and significance and then achieve lasting happiness (Artibello YEAR).ReferenceArtibello, J. (YEAR). Leaving the cave. Insert PLACE OF PUBLICATION PUBLISHER.