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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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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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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western philosophy. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is taken from his work‚ The Republic. He uses the metaphorical situation where people are chained so their movements are restricted in a cave. They have never seen anything but the shadows of people projected on the wall. For these prisoners shadow is a reality; for us‚ their perspective on nature is very narrow. The shadow represented only one side of the picture‚ a false idea about reality. Plato communicates the allegory with the objective of education
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Breaking Free of the Cave “The Republic”‚ Plato’s longest work‚ has many views about philosophy and characters within and there is one character that truly stands out and entices you to read on until the very end; that was Socrates. Socrates was a mentor and a friend of Plato’s and in Plato’s eyes‚ he was a great and wise Philosopher that was a martyr for philosophy. Within “The Republic”‚ Plato has written a symbolic account about one of Socrates’ teachings of education or the enlightenment
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In the dialogue‚ Socrates asks Glaucon to imagine a cave‚ in which some people are kept. These people have been in the cave since their childhood‚ and each of them is held and chained‚ so they can’t move their legs and necks. They forced to look at a wall in front of them‚ and behind them there is a fire. Also‚ there are another people behind
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story “The Myth of the Cave” by Plato are limited in their similarities. Even though the similarities are few‚ what is similar provides a big punch because of the deeper meaning in these works. One major thing the stories have in common is that both stories are allegories. An allegory is a work that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning‚ typically being moral or religious based. The flock from Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the remaining prisoners from “The Myth of the Cave” have many similarities
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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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Reality‚ Truth‚ and Understanding The Allegory of the Cave by Plato questions truth‚ reality‚ and demonstrates how we are similar to the prisoners within the cave. Every person has a personal “cave” and only with knowledge and understanding can we escape from the captivity ignorance. The prisoners in the story were only allowed to see shadows in the cave and it’s what they believed as true. In the story Plato states that the prisoners came to know reality as nothing more as “the shadows of those
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The allegory of the cave was a vision that Plato described to Socrates about prisoners chained facing a wall of a cave so that they could not move. Chained there for their entire lives they could not see themselves or each other all they could see was the cave wall and shadows. Fire burned above their heads and behind them. Between the fire and the prisoners a wall lined path where people walk and carry vases‚ statues‚ and other artifacts on their heads. The prisoners could hear echoes of voices
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