Knowledge is being aware of facts or information. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave explains the reality of nature. It reveals how human freedom gives you the power to think and learn instead of going by misconceptions. Misconceptions come from lack of knowledge. Without knowledge‚ your mind can be easily controlled or manipulated. It would be hard to know the difference between reality and illusion. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave‚ Plato illustrates how as children we are all close minded and have
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talks about many subjects‚ including how he believed a person learned. He tells about an “Allegory of the Cave”‚ a story told by Socrates explaining how a person comes into knowledge. It tells of people in a cave facing a wall‚ chained so that they can not move their body or head and turn around. They were only able to see the wall and the shadows cast along the wall by people and animals walking by the cave entrance. They would only be able to hear their own voices‚ those arounds them‚ and the echo
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-What are we "imprisoned by" as a people; as a community‚ as individuals? -What does Plato mean by "shadows" in his Allegory of the Cave? What are the "shadows" of our times? -After the prisoners are released from the cave‚ why are they unable to see ID QUOD EST‚ namely‚ REALITY as it is? -What does "the Sun" symbolize? Why do you think that? How so? Because I love Socrates I find everything Plato writes thoroughly interesting. The minute he opened this part of The Republic with “how
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From the dark into the light and from the light into dark. Both are just transitions and yet one seems to be more favorable over the other. As Plato contemplates in the Allegory of the Cave‚ “Instead he’d try to find out whether this person’s mind was returning from a mode of existence which involves greater lucidity and had been blinded by the...” I could finish this entire quote‚ but you probably don’t want to read all of that. Long story short‚ the person feels happy for the other was becoming
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Obtaining the Truth Plato is a historical Greek philosopher and one of Socrate’s pupils. After Socrate died in 399 B.C.‚ Plato left his home in Athens and returned approximately twenty years later. “The Allegory of the Cave” is a short story filled with symbolism and metaphors that Plato had written before he died. In the story‚ Plato wrote about Socrate and his brother‚ Glaucon‚ discussing the steps to obtain the truth and why one should obtain it. In the story‚ Plato uses the prisoners as representative
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Commentary Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is the factual perception on what human’s ignorant minds accept whatever they perceive without envisioning the reality. His use of “dark” imagery illustrates how a person is trapped and isolated in his own “cave” and conceives everything without visually seeing the “light” outside the cave. He conveys the idea that the “prisoners” are stuck and “chained” in their own reality because they were only shown one perspective from “childhood”. Plato wisely suggests
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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave addresses important aspects of a person’s’ frame of mind; through indirectly comparing pieces of the story to mental exploitation. Through his story‚ Plato urges the reader to find truth and wisdom through elevating their personal thinking. A concept he would die to make known - some two thousand years ago - now bears a relevant message in our world today. The message Plato left behind the story lies around perception‚ and how knowledge obtained through what we see is
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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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In his allegory‚ the cave is a representation of the world humans live in and the sun a representation of the true world‚ the world of the forms. Plato‚ through this‚ shows that man will not be able to rush into understanding truth‚ but will first start with what is familiar‚ then move to seeing things in a different way‚ but not an uncomfortable way; then looking at a closer version of the truth‚ and finally having the ability to look directly at the truth and see the beauty in it. Plato claims
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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave relates to social media use in that the media has developed and maintained a strong hold on society‚ similarly as to how the cave encapsulates the prisoners. Nowadays‚ media has become the basis of truth‚ where society soaks in this information and takes it as fact. However‚ how can one determine if these findings that are presented are genuine or just a mere illusion? Plato’s Allegory of the Cave explains how people only base their perception of the world on their experiences
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