Comparing Platos Allegory of the Cave and Maimonides Limits of Mans

Platos Allegory of the Cave and Maimonides Limits of Mans Intellect Enlightenment is the key subject of both Platos Allegory and Moses Maimonides Limits of Mans Intellect. To them, obtaining knowledge is lifes most strong objective. Plato stresses the proper while Maimonides encourages Perfection as the aim of this objective. While both authors share compatible thoughts toward the subject of enlightenment, there are key differences between the Good and Perfection that should be duly noted. In Platos Allegory we see mankind in a state of imprisonment. What they consider reality is merely shadows that are swear on a cavern wall. This can be linked to Maimonides essay in that he views mans youth as a kind of imprisonment when it comes to obtaining abstractedness knowledge. He says it is important to initiate the young and teach them according to their ability to comprehend (296). This I feel is an initial starting point, a state of beginnings correspondent to man be ing shackled by the limits of its intellect at youth. In the Allegory of ...