Allegory of the Cave by Term Paper

Moreover, Bacon suggests that such false foundations, if passed in time, can only ruin the world.

"The Four Idols" of Francis Bacon summarizes an observation of how humans form information in their minds; same subject discussed by Plato in his "The Allegory of the Cave." According to Bacon, there are things in wherein the truth is hard to bare, thus the human mind resorts to information that are available to him; sometimes just assuming that the available information are the facts and reality. Bacon suggests that

"The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

The philosophies of Francis Bacon were actually inspired and patterned from the thoughts and idealisms of Plato. Thus, "The Four Idols" can be found as an extension of Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave." Both suggest that the human mind is always exposed to fallacies and such fallacies can distort reality.Plato's and Bacon's work only prove that man should be careful in the way he acquires knowledge. The main point of "The Four Idols" and "The Allegory of the Cave" is that knowledge and learning can be obtained from many ways, but the important thing to note is how intelligent the knowledge and learning is acquired. Finally, from "The Four Idols" and "The Allegory of the Cave," a reader can learn this important technique in learning: The term "knowledge" only comes to the sense of its real meaning only when the truth is established based on reality.

References

Bacon, Francis."The Four Idols." A World of Ideas. Ed. Lee A. Jacobus. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's

Plato, The Allegory of the Cave (Text)

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/allegory.html.....