Having faith and gaining knowledge of the truth can be a taxing journey‚ but it will always be worth it. In “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato‚ a prisoner living in a cave is forced to learn the truth. The shadows he sees are not real‚ but are made to seem like they are. He is taken up into the sun and learns the truth. Figuratively‚ the truth he learns is that God is real and the shadows being created by society are not. He has a choice to make on whether he will go back into the cave to tell others
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these people that are tied up is just the shadows of all different things that are walking along behind them including people and animals. When one of the prisoners escapes his bonds he goes out and sees the real world for what it truly is and this person goes back to try to tell the other prisoners. The other prisoners just see the escaped prisoner as a shadow with a voice that they can’t understand. The Matrix is very similar because Neo the main character starts out living in a fake reality of the
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1724160 Meric Dogan Lab Assignment 2 Prisoner ’s Dilemma Since the beginning of the history humans have been competing for their benefits. It is the basic instinct we have until we are dead. Even to born there is a race between cells. I think prisoners dilemma situation is the best example for that instinct. Kollocks (1990) declared that people are trapped by the Prisoner ’s Dilemma only if they treat themselves as prisoners by passively accepting the suboptimum strategy the
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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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them. The prisoners will see their shadows casted on the wall‚ created by the fire behind the low wall. They would believe that whenever a person passing by would speak‚ it was the shadowing speaking. These prisoners would see reality as shadows on a wall because that’s all they have ever seen. “Now if they could talk to each other‚ don’t you think they’d believe what they saw was reality?” “Necessarily” (Plato 175). As Plato keeps describing the situation he states that what if the prisoners could
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Emily both stories share the theme of isolation. In Plato’s Myth prisoners are attached with chains to their necks not allowing them to look sideward‚ only towards what is directly in front of them. Behind them there is a burning fire with people holding up puppets that cast shadows on the wall‚ making the prisoners believe that the shadows that they are seeing are real people rather than just shadows. What it really convinces the prisoners are the echoes and the sounds that fit the shadows. That is what
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“Allegory of the Cave” and Frederick Douglass’s “Learning to Read and Write” a painful process of gaining knowledge through all the ignorance is described. Plato describes a prisoner going on a journey to gain knowledge that is behind him‚ after he was stuck staring at a wall of shadows his whole life. He goes back to tell the other prisoners of his discoveries and they want to kill him. Douglass is a slave who learns to read and write‚ going through stages to achieve each step. As he begins gaining knowledge
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need to follow US rules. Many painful and tortuous things are performed on the prisoners‚ such as force feeding and the topic of this essay‚ water boarding‚ where the victim is made to feel as though they are drowning. Although Gitmo is legal/allowed to an extent‚ it still begs the question how the guards consciously perform such cruel acts and what I would do if I were faced with the decision of torturing a prisoner or not. The ethical ideas of the Just War model have been employed by international
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Socrates‚ the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows that he has seen all his life on the wall are not reality at all. The escaped prisoner would then return to the cave and tell the other prisoners about what he has seen outside the cave and how the things they believe to be reality are wrong. Most of the prisoners ignore the escapee and go back to watching
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philosopher Plato‚ illustrates three chained prisoners trapped within a cage never seeing the outside world The only thing that they can see are the shadows created by fire of one’s passing through. One prisoner was allowed the freedom to be released. As he discovers this outside world around him‚ he becomes eager to tell the other prisoners about it. The prisoners do not believe him‚ because they are not able to see it for themselves. The one prisoner begs and pleads for them to believe him‚ but
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