... image of true reality. This is what the theory of the Form of the Good is about, and what intends to answer what reality is. To try and establish what reality actually is Plato wrote one of his most famous dialogues where he is writing or discussing in the persona of Socrates and talking with Glaucon another Greek Philosopher who was interested in the work of Socrates. This dialogue is commonly known as the Allegory of the Cave (also known as 'the Simile of the Cave' or 'the Analogy of the Cave' but they are all the same thing), this dialogue is a representative - as the title or it suggests - of Plato's 'Theory of the Forms'. In this allegory Plato talks about the - in metaphorical terms of course -difference between the reality as we know it and the truth of reality, which is in the World of Forms. ...

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