different ways. Most will agree‚ however‚ that the basic point of the movie concerns the subject of change. But we can also see the movie as a modern version of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. From this point of view‚ Pleasantville depicted in black and white represents the cave‚ while color represents the world of enlightenment beyond the cave. Before David and Jennifer become Bud and Mary Sue‚ everything in Pleasantville is apparently perfect. Everyone lives their day-to-day lives without any problems
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things‚ or knowledge as it were‚ are rich with questions about life. Many philosophers follow down their own rabbit hole to arrive at answers to common themes yet from an entirely different perspective. In the case of The Apology and the Allegory of the Cave as well as the story of the Good Brahmin‚ both Socrates and Voltaire did exactly that‚ arrived at similar conclusions yet walked an entirely different path to arrive there. The paragraphs below briefly discusses this. ------------------------------------------------------------
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out to follow our own ambitions and question the world. In order to comprehend the world around us‚ one must question it. Among those questions we should be enlightened by the fact reality and the truth of the world around us. Plato in his ‘Allegory of the Cave’ contends that the world of the senses is a world of delusion; and a correct philosopher must see through this illusion to the truth. Socrates stated when defending his right to theorize‚ that an unexamined life is not worth living‚ stating
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opinion around me that having abortions was not ok. Yet as I grew up I began to learn more and more about the benefits of abortions. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave we can see how the people were stuck. They were stuck in their notions like i was stuck in my belief that having an abortion was the wrong ay out. As I grew‚ or as I saw the light and escapd the cave‚ I saw the benefits of being able to have choices. If a woman was raped and became regnant from she wouldn’t have to live with the constant
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Summary: In The Allegory of The Cave‚ Plato indicates that the truth‚ the realistic‚ and the justice are certainly hard to find‚ but people should not give up the pursuit through combining the fancy and realistic‚ and they should not abandon this awareness. Plato uses a metaphor‚ prisoners who assume that the objects’ shadows from the projection of the fire in the den is the truth and the realistic because they do not know how real objects look like in the outside world. However‚ when a prisoner
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good‚ but when they have ascended and seen enough...they must be able to descend again...‚"(Plato 5) symbolizes that it is the responsibility of those with great minds who make sense of the knowledge around them‚ to inform others who are stuck in the cave. Plato emphasizes that withholding this kind of information is denying each person human dignity‚ and disrespecting others their right to live as they
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I say this because the knowledge behind logic comes from experiences and empiricist believes that the main source of gaining knowledge is experience. According to Socrates’ system of casual explanation in the passage “Allegory of the Cave” by station page 2‚ “this entire allegory‚ I said‚ you may now append‚ dear Glaucon‚ to the previous argument; the
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This was related to a philosopher Socrates and his relationship to Athens. Here Plato talked about people who were born and raised in cave and knew nothing else but the shadows that were formed in front of them. Since that is all they knew to be true and knew nothing else of the world they had no experiences or prior knowledge in order to know what they saw was not true and that there
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Discussion Question 5 In platos republic‚ book VI‚ platos tells the story of Allegory of the cave. This story tells of what plato believes true education is. First plato tells what education is not. “Education isn’t what some people declare it to be‚ namly‚ putting knowledge into souls that lack it‚ like putting sight into blind eyes”(518b) then plato describes what he thinks education is. “Then education is the craft concerned with doing this very thing‚ this turning around‚ and with how the soul
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The dissemination of truth comes with fierce repudiation. The ancient works of the Bible and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” express this everlasting theme. Jesus and the Platonic Prisoner walk together‚ hand in hand‚ to spread their great truths in their responding body politic to mature. However‚ they could just as easily remain stagnant in their position of superiority and would logically be better off keeping to themselves. But they did not. These two great teachers feel a strong and dutiful obligation
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