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    The wind nearly picked little‚ Nancy up off her feet as they entered the cave. If it had not been for John and Uriah grabbing her arms and dragging her inside‚ the wind would have siphoned her right back out the cave entrance as it seemed to do with all the air in the space. A moment later the air returned and they could breathe‚ but then they heard hellacious noises outside as the whirlwind wrecked havoc around them. The noise was deafening as it seemed to put pressure on their eardrums so that

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    Anolgy of the cave

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    The Analogy Of The Cave Tells Us Nothing About Reality The analogy of the cave was created by Plato to explain his philosophy and it allowed people to understand other forms such as beauty and justice. It was a theoretical situation‚ were prisoners were tied up and could only see what was in front of them‚ which was due to a fire‚ which burnt behind them. This was meant to represent ordinary people who can’t see pass the illusion of their world and are‚ according to Plato ignorant. The fact

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    that people need luxuries and entertainment. So the second version of the city needs luxuries. Platos "ideal city" is really the search for the truth of justice‚ if Socrates were able to find the relationship between the soul and city in his "ideal city" then he would have the true meaning of justice. We saw from the reading how he broke down the city ’s parts and also the soul. According to Plato‚ Socrates broke down the perfect city into four parts; each part is tied to a specific virtue that

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    At the beginning of the allegory‚ the “theory of forms” is also introduced. This theory states that the “existence of a level of reality inhabited by ideal “forms” of all things and concepts”(Plato pg1) indicating that there is a form to any object‚ Adding as well that all forms will be eternal and unchanging but they tend to inhabit changeable matter in the temporal world. Plato considers the realm of forms to be always eternal and unchanging however; the world we inhabit is a constantly changing

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    Prehistoric art of caves in southern France and northern Spain have many common motifs. In both places‚ the main subjects are animals. The paintings are quite sophisticated‚ thus creatures depicted with great details: horns‚ tusks‚ eyes‚ faces‚ bodies are very well observed and painted. The Hall of Bulls in Lascaux Cave in France is a good example. Wall paintings include images of the cows‚ bisons‚ deers and horses. Animals features are emphasised and pronounced: deers have beautiful antlers‚ bisons’

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    Plato‚ Descartes‚ and The Matrix Kyra Eigenberger Liberty University Deception is the foundational issue prevalent in The Matrix‚ Plato’s allegory of the cave‚ and Rene Descartes meditations. In each of these excerpts the goal of answering the question of what is real and how to uncover the truth is essential. Another question that arises throughout all three excerpts is whether or not the individuals will be able to handle the truth when it is finally learnt. In The Matrix Morpheus reveals

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    COMPARING MOTH AND CAVE

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    Comparing the Death of a Moth and Allegory of a Cave Roberto Rodriguez University of La Verne Abstract Extremely interesting how Virginia Woolf and Plato describe their point of views in their essays. Novice individuals as myself have a very hard time understanding these pieces. On the other side open minded individuals would have endless ideas on what both authors are trying to express. The Death of a Moth and Allegory of a Cave although a very bold and arguable statement

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    What do Plato‚ Descartes‚ and Hobbes contribute to the question "how do we know what is true‚ and what is false?" In the allegory of the cavePlato views the sunlight as the truth‚ and the shadows in the cave as being false‚ and his contribution to the question "how can we tell what is true‚ and what is false" is that we have no way of knowing what is true‚ and what is false‚ until we have experienced them both‚ and can compare the two. I think that Plato is trying to say that society

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    however is that humans are unconscious‚ in machines that keep their bodies alive while their brains are all connected to the matrix which is simulating real life. The perception is completely false. Similarly‚ in the cave allegory the prisoners’ perception of objects passing the cave wall in the form of shadows is false. In reality‚ they are only guessing the true nature of the shadows and never really know what the objects are until one prisoner is freed and allowed to experience things as they really

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    The analogy of the cave tells us nothing about reality. Discuss [10] To explain the way in which Plato’s analogy of the cave could tell us something about reality‚ one could use the example of a small town‚ in the middle of nowhere. Many people live in this town‚ and it has a school‚ a church‚ a post office and a shop. The population of the town rarely leave to visit other places. These people can be considered to be the prisoners in Plato’s analogy‚ chained together‚ facing a blank wall‚ assuming

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