Commentary Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is the factual perception on what human’s ignorant minds accept whatever they perceive without envisioning the reality. His use of “dark” imagery illustrates how a person is trapped and isolated in his own “cave” and conceives everything without visually seeing the “light” outside the cave. He conveys the idea that the “prisoners” are stuck and “chained” in their own reality because they were only shown one perspective from “childhood”. Plato wisely suggests
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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave addresses important aspects of a person’s’ frame of mind; through indirectly comparing pieces of the story to mental exploitation. Through his story‚ Plato urges the reader to find truth and wisdom through elevating their personal thinking. A concept he would die to make known - some two thousand years ago - now bears a relevant message in our world today. The message Plato left behind the story lies around perception‚ and how knowledge obtained through what we see is
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their imprisoned minds. The other a classical essay written by Plato‚ called “The Allegory of the Cave.” In the essay‚ Plato entertains the idea‚ of what prisoners who are raised in a cave‚ where all they can know to be true is shadows on a large wall that they gaze at their entire lives. They contrast in many ways‚ yet over the centuries since Plato’s time‚ the theme of his essay still applies. One of the finest points that Plato made in his essay‚ was that if a man were to gaze at shadows
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talks about many subjects‚ including how he believed a person learned. He tells about an “Allegory of the Cave”‚ a story told by Socrates explaining how a person comes into knowledge. It tells of people in a cave facing a wall‚ chained so that they can not move their body or head and turn around. They were only able to see the wall and the shadows cast along the wall by people and animals walking by the cave entrance. They would only be able to hear their own voices‚ those arounds them‚ and the echo
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Why am I here and how does the allegory of cave inform my answer? It’s quite challenging to relate an allegory to our lives. But if we think carefully and list those objects and their corresponded symbols: prisoners represent imperfect human‚ the shadow represents illusion of the truth‚ prison represents limitations that hold us back from getting close to the truth…etc‚ I start to understand that I myself could be the prisoner who lives comfortably in his narrow worldview and have difficulties taking
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hand‚ it can be argued that‚ from a grander perspective‚ disproving old knowledge does not mean that our new-found knowledge is of higher quality‚ since we may never have an accurate grasp on reality beyond what our senses suggest. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” tells us that‚ what we believe we are seeing are but our interpretations of ‘shadows’ cast by other things. This can be compared to the fact that before the sixth-century BCE‚ almost everyone people believed in the Flat-Earth Theory. They
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Obtaining the Truth Plato is a historical Greek philosopher and one of Socrate’s pupils. After Socrate died in 399 B.C.‚ Plato left his home in Athens and returned approximately twenty years later. “The Allegory of the Cave” is a short story filled with symbolism and metaphors that Plato had written before he died. In the story‚ Plato wrote about Socrate and his brother‚ Glaucon‚ discussing the steps to obtain the truth and why one should obtain it. In the story‚ Plato uses the prisoners as representative
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And the reason he decided to escape was that he wanted to question everything he learned from inside the cave. When he finally left the cave‚ he was in disbelief; it was pretty much a culture shock to him. Everything was so different compared to his life inside the cave that he didn’t want to believe any of the world outside of it. When he finally accepted the new ideas‚ he discovered the truth. Since he was able to discover the truth
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In his allegory‚ the cave is a representation of the world humans live in and the sun a representation of the true world‚ the world of the forms. Plato‚ through this‚ shows that man will not be able to rush into understanding truth‚ but will first start with what is familiar‚ then move to seeing things in a different way‚ but not an uncomfortable way; then looking at a closer version of the truth‚ and finally having the ability to look directly at the truth and see the beauty in it. Plato claims
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The cave in the allegory basically represents believers of empirical knowledge. As a child‚ I was easily susceptible to this form of knowledge. I was known as “the quiet one” or the girl that always keeps to herself. The biggest cause of this is the way I have been brought up. Growing up as an only child and a female in a Guyanese household to immigrant parents‚ I have been taught ways of life that are very contrasting to the ways of life that are taught in Canada. The society where my parents came
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