The Allegory of the Cave‚ written by Plato‚ was a very interesting read for me. It got me to think how alike we are to those prisoners in the cave. Just like them‚ we “see” or rather perceive shadows on a wall in our daily lives‚ but not in the sense of literal shadows‚ but in the form of events and desires that we may have. To the prisoners‚ the shadows were a “limitation” to their reality. For us today‚ I feel that our fears are our limitations; the things that stop us from seeing what is actual
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Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” discuss the influence that some of these various teaching methods have on an individual. Freire’s work names and describes two specific approaches which are referred to as the banking method and the problem-posing method. Similarly‚ though in a vastly more abstract way‚ Plato outlines two other ways of learning about the world through metaphoric prisoners within a cave. Though my own educational
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Upon reading the Allegory of the Cave‚ one can see that Plato is arguing the importance of defining the theory of what is really being seen versus illusions that we see and think are reality. In this play‚ prisoners are chained by their feet and necks so that they can not move their bodies or their heads‚ forcing them to look straight ahead at a stone wall. A fire is burning behind them and people are walking with sculptures across a platform in front of the fire‚ creating projected images onto
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The Allegory of the Cave The Allegory means a lot to people who are very mystical and like to think of different things about life. The allegory is a story about these prisoners whom since they’ve been children have been locked away deep inside a cave with chains all over their bodies including their heads making them be immobilized and their heads facing one certain wall. To the backs of these prisoners there is a fire and between the prisoners and the fire stands a way in which men carry various
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someone’s idea who might not be able to design or paint the idea given. 2. One rationale reason for cave paintings in prehistoric times‚ that I have heard and agree with is that they painted these things on the walls in hope that the creatures would come so they would have food among other things. One particular example would be all the paintings in the Las Caux cave in France; it is a cave entirely full of images of bulls. Bulls or bison were a source of not only food but probably clothing and
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see our ancestors going into caves such as the Chauvet Cave‚ or the Cave of Niaux‚ and painting truly immaculate‚ unbelievable portrayals of (most commonly) large wild animals. These caves are covered on the walls and the ceilings with these animals‚ and it is quite clear that our ancestors showed these images a lot of respect. These images were not drawn in caves in which people lived‚ in fact most caves showed very little signs of life at all. Some of these caves
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INTRO Ajanta and Ellora are the pride of Maharashtra. The rock-cut caves of both these sites are world famous and illustrate the degree of skill and artistry that Indian craftsmen had achieved several hundred years ago. Ajanta dates from 100 B.C. while Ellora is younger by some 600 years. The village of Ajanta is in the Sahyadri hills‚ about 99 kms. From Aurangabad; a few miles away in a mammoth horseshoe-formed rock‚ are 30 caves overlooking a gorge‚ `each forming a room in the hill and some with
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Arlet Duran Response to “The Allegory of the Cave” What is truth? In “The Allegory of the Cave”‚ I believe truth is being portrayed as something we as humans see‚ maybe only once‚ without it even being the whole truth. Even then we neglect to see “other truths.” According to Socrates‚ and I quote‚ “From the beginning people like this have never managed‚ whether on their own or with the help by others‚ to see anything besides the shadows that are [continually] projected on the wall opposite
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Eren Erkan Final Draft 20801260 IR Phil 243/ 15 Tuğçe Arıkan Essay Question: Explain Plato’s ideal state by referring to the Republic‚ book IV and VII. To what extent do you agree with Plato’s idea that the kings should be philosophers? Why? Why not? Concept of create an ideal state really need to long effort and time. This concept and long standing debate that how should be an ideal state is explains in Plato’s Republic book IV and VII. In Republic‚ Plato explains the features
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the Chauvet cave. Chauvet cave is the most monumental and historical value cave in art circles in the world. This majestic cave is found by a team of three speleologist in 1994. It is 25 meters deep in the ground‚ length about 500 meters located in the Ardeche region of the southern France. When in 1998‚ the Franch archeologian Dr. Jean Clottes is the first research leader to leaded the research team in Chauvet cave. Chauvet cave is very important for art history because in this cave hidden a lot
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