The Allegory of the Cave Response paper The Allegory of the Cave is one of the most philosophical writings based on reality I have ever read. I have read a lot from Henry David Thoreau‚ from C.S. Lewis and others‚ but this piece of Plato’s book ‘Republic’ made a big impression on me mostly because it was written in Ancient Greece in the fourth century B.C. My favorite part of the book is in the first paragraph: “like the screen at a puppet show‚ which hides the performers while they show
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programming his thoughts‚ and experiences. All the humans were in this huge machine with their brains connected to a bunch of wires‚ and their thoughts were being inputted by the computer. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave‚ there is a similar situation. In his description of the prisoners of the cave‚ the prisoners were chained down‚ and only able to look a wall. There was a fire behind them and shadows from other walking by were played out on the wall for the prisoners to see. They believed the shadows
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knowledge is eternal and we would then understand reality. This is connected to Plato’s Allegory of The Cave (Book VII – The Republic). In the Allegory of The Cave‚ Plato analyzes individuals untrained in the Theory of Forms to prisoners (soul) in a cave (body)‚ chained to the wall with no possibility of turning their heads and moving their hands. With flame smoldering behind them‚ they could only see the wall of the cave and the shadows of the puppets put in the middle of them and the fire. The prisoners
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Are African Americans Still Oppressed? African Americans in society today like the prisoners in the Allegory of the Cave are hostage to their own mentality. The two characteristics commonly shared between both is ignorance to reality and a reluctance to change. Thus in the essay the prisoners are locked and chained down in darkness with only a glow of light that allows for little sight. In turn objects placed in front of the glow cast shadows before them. These shadows are then interpreted as
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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
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The Matrix‚ “The Allegory of the Cave‚” and “The Meditations on First Philosophy‚” readings all seem to have one common thread. These are still the age old questions that remains unanswered‚ “Am I real‚” “is the world real‚” “is anything real?” These questions or state of mind has been asked and answered by so many people beyond these readings that it is overwhelmingly‚ one of the largest subjects not only in philosophy‚ but also in non-fiction‚ fiction and science fiction writings. Writers have
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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave World History Honors In reading the philosophical works of Allegory of the Cave by Plato‚ I have come to the conclusion that he is trying to inform about education. In the writing‚ to me‚ the cave symbolizes that they basically have a daily routine with no variables. Another way of putting that is they live in the dark. The chains represent that they are bound by their own beliefs. The shadows represent a state of paranoia because they always feel like someone is
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People’s perception on reality is not always true. Those are mistaken for ideas they believe is reality. This is what Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” was based on. According to the text‚ the prisoners are sitting in a cave‚ chained from their legs to their neck so they cannot move. The prisoners are watching images cast on the wall with fire blazing above and behind them. They cannot grasp true reality‚ which are shadows intentionally made by men. They were forced to have one idea; and if anyone tried
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Thoughts on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave The allegory of the cave that appears in Book VII of Plato’s Republic is a well-known text for good reason: it is a brilliant allegory on the nature of the human condition in its relationship to knowledge‚ and it forces the careful reader to reflect on Plato’s implications about different kinds of knowledge. For the Greek philosopher Plato‚ the true reality exists in the world of ideas‚ a world that is invisible
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happen if people were prisoned in a cave chained their whole life and how a prisoner would act once outside the cave then force back in. Plato believes without having any education‚ one will be blinded to the truth. Blinding people from knowledge can lead them to confusion after realizing the truth. Plato and Socrates talked about an allegory of the cave‚ where people were chained to look straight
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