THE TEACHING OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE CLASSROOM FROM PLATO'S ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate how the philosophy teacher can work on Plato's Theory of Ideas and the allegory of the cave in the classroom. For this, there will be a brief explanation about Plato's Theory of Ideas and the allegory of the cave that he builds in order to exemplify his idea. A very common difficulty is being able to adapt philosophical themes to the students' reality without distorting the philosopher's idea. With this, this article seeks to associate the idea of what a philosopher is according to Plato with the idea of a student and demonstrate the common points between a philosopher and a student. Another issue that this article intends to demonstrate is the association between a student and a non-philosopher, demonstrating that there are common points between them.