Answer :

Socrates says that if a liberated prisoner returned to the cave, his former companions would find him ridiculous, because-

"Once the liberated prisoner is enlightened (freed from his own perceptions) he is no longer welcomed by the prisoners in the cave because they are no longer equals". The prisoners entire world is now challenged by the one who returned. It would be easier to attack him then go through a complete change of existing.

Who is Socrates.?

"Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought."

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