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    Allegory of the Cave

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    city’s outdoor speaker system‚ which has been installed on a few main streets downtown. The program is phased in gradually. Music is played on the system on some days but is purposely not played on other days. This procedure enables the manager to compare differences in the number of individuals cited for loitering on music days and nonmusic days. Ms. Waldo runs a regression in which the number of individuals receiving either warnings or citations for loitering (LOIT) is the dependent variable. The

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    Compare the film ‘the matrix’ with Plato’s allegory of the cave. The Allegory of the Cave is one of Greek philosopher Plato’s most well known works. It is an extended allegory‚ where humans are depicted as being imprisoned by their bodies and what they perceive by sight only. In the allegory of the cave Plato wanted to show how true reality is not always what it seems. A group of prisoners were chained up in a cave since there childhood‚ each prisoner was chained to each other by their heads

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    characters backgrounds are Kate Beckett (played by Stana Katic) is a Homicide Detective for the NYPD and Richard Castle (played by Nathan Fillion) is a bestselling mystery novelist. We also have Jim and Huck from the Novel‚ “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”. In this story Jim is a runaway slave and Huck is a young boy looking for his father. Jim and Huck find each other when they were both on the Island. In this new friendship they both help each other for Hick it’s to find his father and Jims

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    5/12/12 The Allegory of the Cave This world has seen many ideas come‚ and many ideas go. Some ideas have been very beneficial and have stuck with society‚ such as Alexander Belle Grahams invention of the telephone. Others have not been so successful and have proved to be a pointless invention‚ such as the snuggie. Some would think that the ideas of a man who lived thousands of years ago would not still apply to the world today‚ but those people would be wrong. The ideas that Plato presents about

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    In Plato ’s "The Allegory of the Cave‚" Socrates tells an allegory of the hardship of understanding reality. Using metaphors Socrates compares a prisoner in an underground cave who is exploring a new strange world he never knew of to people who are trying to find a position of knowledge in reality. Through it‚ Plato attempts to map a man ’s journey through education and describes what is needed to achieve a perfect society. According to Socrates‚ most people tend to rely on their senses excessively

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    seems‚ as seen in Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave.” Metaphysics aims to answer: what‚ most fundamentally‚ is real? In the film‚ The Machinist‚ I noticed that philosophical theme throughout the movie and as a viewer‚ I was determined to answer that question. In “The Allegory of the Cave‚” Plato‚ a Greek philosopher‚ compares the mind to the Realm

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    He describes a cave where prisoners are chained to a wall and cannot turn their heads‚ but only face straight toward a wall. This cave is all they know‚ they have never experienced any other reality. Behind them is a large fire‚ and in front of that fire people pass with objects and animals‚ reflecting images onto the wall that

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    Huckleberry Finn

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    from his family and risking his life for his freedom‚ Jim remains positive and protects Huck as if he were his own child. Jim is consistently noble and loyal in all his actions and proves the be the only fit adult role model for Huck. 3. For Huck Finn‚ there is no clear line between honesty and dishonesty. There are times when he tells the truth and times when he knowingly lies. Huck differentiates each side according to loyalty and betrayal‚ he is truthful to the ones he is loyal towards (Jim‚

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    philosophy. As explained in the Allegory of the Cave by Plato‚ some of reality is merely shadows; in Plato’s perspective‚ this puppet show view is created by the materialistic world. An ideal ‘real world’ is made up of ideas‚ thoughts‚ feelings and other nonmaterial beliefs. Inside the cave‚ one is blinded and is only seeing reflections and shadows of the real world; this is how most humans live today. Just as one is hesitant to go outside the cave in Plato’s allegory‚ people are scared to invest time

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    Knowledge‚ you can say is everything that is known through view or what is seen. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave believed that knowledge is acquired not just through what is perceived‚ but also rather through the process of thought and thinking. What is not seen‚ or what you cannot see Plato considered being the real source of knowledge. On the other hand‚ William Golding‚ in Thinking as a Hobby‚ categorizes the level of knowledge and thought‚ taking further from the point made by Plato. Golding puts

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