people. Some people give the straight forward answer saying that they have always wanted to go to a certain place in the view of their own personal interests‚ but there is a deeper definition as to why that individual is at that school. Plato’s allegory of the cave shows two different stages of education and how they are still present today. Now the question changes and is asked towards me‚ why am I at Concordia college? I first heard of Concordia through one of my baseball coaches who told
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and Shawshank Redemption” portray the effects of prison life including the rising and the falling of certain prisoners‚ along with the friendships and connections made. Along with the film and the novella‚ “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather and “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato share similarities with King’s novella. Each prison has its leaders and its followers‚ but Red seems to be one of its leaders‚ soon to follow—Andy Dufresne. In the beginning of the film‚ the new prisoners are being brought in by
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similar to your Allegory of the Cave in the sense that it has taught me how to perceive my reality and to differentiate between what is real and what is not. Your allegory talks about prisoners being trapped in a cave‚ restricted by chains with their backs towards the exit‚ only being able to see shadows produced by a source of fire. This means that the shadows are the only thing they know‚ which is their reality. Once someone is able to breakthrough and find the exit of the cave‚ they are exposed
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The Allegory of the Cave by Plato In the Allegory of the Cave‚ we learn from Plato’s story that the cave dwellers view of life is limited to what they can actually see. Their reality is what they can visualize from their limited environment. When one of them escapes he finds out that what they thought the world was like was not real. After discovering a new reality‚ he returns to the cave and tries to tell the others that they are confused about what the world is really like. The others are fearful
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reality‚ and he made a great impact on the knowledge we can have. Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” is one of the best known writings in Philosophy that attempted to answer questions such as “why are we here?” and “what is reality?”. In
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Have you ever wondered whether‚ Plato‚ if he were alive in the 20 century‚ would he be a brilliant movie director‚ with productions that earned more than $400 million? Both Plato’s “Allegory of Cave” and Andy and Lana Wachowski’s movie “The Matrix” explore the abstruse question of perception of truth. What is truth‚ and how do we determine what is truth? “I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth‚ the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious.” This quote
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Plato and Niccolo Machiavelli magnificent ideologies for leaders of the world. First Plato’s dialogue Allegory of the Cave described what would happen if prisoners were chained to a wall and could only see the shadows before them. The shadows were visuals on the wall from the fire blazing behind them. Plato stated a quote about what would happen if those prisoners were to be released out of the cave? His reasoning for this was to produce what the human natures method is of gaining knowledge. Then‚
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In the allegory three men are described chained to a wall‚ and they have been there since a child. The men could only see shadows made from a fire behind them. These men would see the shadows of the other humans and objects that were projected behind them due to
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In his well-known “Allegory of the Cave”‚ the Greek philosopher Plato used the analogy of people lost in a cave to explain his belief that only enlightened philosophers should rule‚ since only they could truly understand the world. When I compared Plato’s ideal government to the workings of a modern democracy‚ I realized how different these two are. The U.S. government relies on the rule of the people‚ and does not limit voting rights or the pursuit of public office to any particular class. If Plato’s
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learning. Pluto described a prisoner being stuck and living inside of a dark cave. He was completely oblivious to the outside world and could only identify with shadows from the fire that was lit in the cave. Soon he became free and was exposed to the real world. He then realized that the shadows he saw in the cave was no comparison to the physical touch of another human being‚ or object. Overtime the prisoner in the cave had newly found knowledge and was able to adapt and adjust to the outside
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