Allegory Of The Cave Summary
“Breaking My Chains”
Mathematics from my perspective is another form of breaking out of the allegory in a cave, because once enlightenment was evident in the headache that is also known as Mathematics, one begins to understand how this headache of a process enlightens one to think logically and more cognitively in the revolutionized modern society; therefore, if an individual person connects the concept of “An Allegoric Cave” with the perception of reality, that individual will be able to find all truths in a world of perpetual lies.
Allegory of the Cave starts off with three prisoners tied up to some rocks. Their arms and legs are bound together. Their heads chained so that they cannot look at anything but the stone wall in front of them. …show more content…
Also known as awakening your intuition, opening yourself up to bigger and more complex concepts in life. Allowing for one to accept all forms of knowledge, this is what the author is referring to in “Allegory of the Cave”. When society opens their mind to new ideas, new things begin to happen, and things begin to become more advanced and revolutionary. Therefore, Allegory of the Cave is merely a symbolization of society adapting to the evolution of enlightened consciousness. Plato uses the prisoner in the cave to represent the people (us) who blinded by the fake knowledge that comes from what we see and hear in the world. This is shown in the passage as the shadows on the wall. Only mere illusions of the actual truth. We do not know much but that which we make up in our minds. We think we are clever and praise each other for our knowledge, but really we only know the top surface of the actual truth. Once the prisoner escapes the cave, he must re-educated himself in the world around him "first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of the men and other objects, then the objects themselves" (Plato 202). Plato then goes on and says that the new knowledge we collect that we must not keep it to our self, but “we must descend again among the prisoners in the den, and partake of their labours and honours, weather they are worth having or not” (Plato 205). The reaction to the escapee returning represents that
Mathematics from my perspective is another form of breaking out of the allegory in a cave, because once enlightenment was evident in the headache that is also known as Mathematics, one begins to understand how this headache of a process enlightens one to think logically and more cognitively in the revolutionized modern society; therefore, if an individual person connects the concept of “An Allegoric Cave” with the perception of reality, that individual will be able to find all truths in a world of perpetual lies.
Allegory of the Cave starts off with three prisoners tied up to some rocks. Their arms and legs are bound together. Their heads chained so that they cannot look at anything but the stone wall in front of them. …show more content…
Also known as awakening your intuition, opening yourself up to bigger and more complex concepts in life. Allowing for one to accept all forms of knowledge, this is what the author is referring to in “Allegory of the Cave”. When society opens their mind to new ideas, new things begin to happen, and things begin to become more advanced and revolutionary. Therefore, Allegory of the Cave is merely a symbolization of society adapting to the evolution of enlightened consciousness. Plato uses the prisoner in the cave to represent the people (us) who blinded by the fake knowledge that comes from what we see and hear in the world. This is shown in the passage as the shadows on the wall. Only mere illusions of the actual truth. We do not know much but that which we make up in our minds. We think we are clever and praise each other for our knowledge, but really we only know the top surface of the actual truth. Once the prisoner escapes the cave, he must re-educated himself in the world around him "first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of the men and other objects, then the objects themselves" (Plato 202). Plato then goes on and says that the new knowledge we collect that we must not keep it to our self, but “we must descend again among the prisoners in the den, and partake of their labours and honours, weather they are worth having or not” (Plato 205). The reaction to the escapee returning represents that