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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Cave paintings have been a mystery to many people ever since their discovery‚ causing many different theories about why our ancestors went into the caves to create their art. An early theory was that it was just art for art’s sake. It was just something to pass the time and had no meaning. Others believe that the paintings were made by Shamans. The Shaman is the spiritual leader of the people and he would have went in the caves for spiritual guidance. Since our ancestors were hunters and gatherers
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1. The cave represents an individual reality. The prisoners only seem to react to the information presented to them. Since they never left the cave they only know the shadows presented to them of things passing by. 2. The shadows represent a blurred perception of reality. If an individual believes that what you see should be perceived as the truth‚ then you are looking at a shadow of what the truth actually is. The prisoners interpret the shadows as things that are real‚ people who have a dim view
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Explain Plato’s Analogy of the Cave Plato’s analogy of the cave begins with prisoners who are captured at birth and chained tightly in a cave with no natural daylight so they can only face and look at the wall in front of them. Since these prisoners have always been like this they know nothing else. They have limited knowledge to only what they can ‘see’ and oppose any other ideas. They are trapped like this and cannot go beyond the surface. The prisoners here are supposed to represent us. It
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Assignment #2 1. No I do not think it is reasonable for to charge Pronto’s sales-force with simultaneously building and holding market share‚ an alternative would be to focusing on having the independent owners building market share and building the 2 percent to be comparable to the 12 percent‚ during this time the company-owned ones would continue to build market share and the company could have incentives for the independent owners to try and match or beat the company owned locations. Once
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Argument #1 There are so many differences in identical twins. Let’s start with the twins Brenda and Bonnie. These twins are both girls and grew up in the same house. When they got older Bonnie turned out to be lesbian. She wanted to be a guy so she could date women. She is now Aiden. Another example is the twins Tim and James. If this was nature one wouldn’t have a kidney problem. Both would. But obviously this is nurture. They both grew up in the same house but one lost a kidney. Argument #2 Personalities
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The book I chose to read was “The Banker’s New Clothes” by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig. There are a number of reasons I selected this book. Firstly‚ I selected this particular book due to my own interest in the reasons behind the financial crisis and also to gain more of an insight into the background of the banking system and its policies. The reviews I had read on this book were extremely thought provoking and even at a first glance‚ the cover picture of the book I thought was metaphorically
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Allegory of the Cave The great philosopher‚ Plato‚ back in the days of the ancient Greek civilization‚ concluded that man as a species can only draw from what his senses take about his surroundings. This includes his social relationships‚ eating habits‚ spiritual beliefs‚ and the many other attributes that make a person who they are. This theory/observation is very accurate about man back then and is also seen in everyday life even today. People are constantly leaving their imaginary caves in search of
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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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The Allegory of the Cave parallels Socrates’ struggle‚ as a philosopher‚ to enlighten the ignorant people in the world through his teachings of truth and happiness‚ only to be bitterly rejected
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