What Plato is trying to teach with The Allegory of the cave is that things that we learn through the senses are not always the truth and people are too close-minded to try to see things in a different light. In Plato’s theory the cave represents that people believe that only things you can see or hear are true or real. The cave shows how these people are trapped in there misunderstanding of reality. The Shadows represent the mistruths presented as reality in the world. The game represents that people
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Explain Plato’s teaching about reality in his analogy of the cave. In Plato’s analogy of the cave he suggests that the prisoners are held back by their senses telling them that the world that they see is in fact reality‚ whereas Plato disagrees with this. Plato believed that once the escapee (Philosopher) is outside of the cave‚ that they can use the power of reason to truly know what reality is. He believes that the world around us is not real‚ and that the world of the forms is the true reality
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The Allegory of the cave represent how people perceive illusion versus reality. It shows how the environment around us and even the people effect how we perceive information and our surroundings. Education and knowledge is gained by what we hear and see. The story is based around the men of this cave and how they were chained up from their childhood until adulthood. “Here they have been from their childhood and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move‚ and can only see before them
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In the story “Myth of the Cave” we are told that there are three prisoners in a cave tied to some rocks‚ their arms and legs are bound and their head is tied so they cannot look at the burning cave entrance behind them. All of the prisoners have been detained since birth and have never seen the real world; they did not even know what existed. Everyday people outside of captives cave walk along the pathway casting shadows on the wall that is in-front of the prisoners. They are able to see figures
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Seagull and “The Myth of the Cave” can’t have more different titles with completely different meanings right; well‚ not exactly. How is it that an allegory about a seagull is anything like an allegory about people inside of a cave? Allegories are just representations of a thing that has a hidden moral or religious meaning the titles of these allegories are very misleading until you analyze them both. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach and “The Myth of the Cave” by Plato are both allegories
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Unit 2 Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” Assignment Blanca Peterson Kaplan University HU250 The Allegory of the Cave is a deep theoretical philosophical scenario that is being described by Plato in the form of a progressive conversation which begins with Socrates having a fictitious conversation with his brother Glaucon. The conversation between both brothers deals with the lack of knowledge of humanity and the ethics that society has created. This story envelops the reality that comes
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The Matrix and The Allegory of the Cave Both "The Allegory of the Cave" and "The Matrix" are stories in which there are two realities‚ one perceived and one real. Although "The Matrix" is not based exactly on Plato’s "The Allegory of the Cave‚" there are several parallels between the two works. The similarities in "The Matrix‚" relate to Plato’s concept. They project his thoughts of natural logic from "The Allegory of the Cave" into a perspective that makes it easier for people to understand when
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some ways the people in the cave not introduced to outside ideas. If you think about it we are all in some ways the people in the cave‚ oblivious so many things in our world. We are given things like the media‚ military‚ presidential election‚ and society to block out the other unknown ideas about life We sit in the cave and these made up things are the fire and the shapes we look at making things that aren’t real. Also religion is a prime example of the fire in the cave. Today we are chained to a
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The allegory of the cave was a vision that Plato described to Socrates about prisoners chained facing a wall of a cave so that they could not move. Chained there for their entire lives they could not see themselves or each other all they could see was the cave wall and shadows. Fire burned above their heads and behind them. Between the fire and the prisoners a wall lined path where people walk and carry vases‚ statues‚ and other artifacts on their heads. The prisoners could hear echoes of voices
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In Plato’s parable‚ The Allegory of the Cave‚ he writes it as a dialogue between his brother and Socrates. Plato thinks of a “game”. It consists of a few prisoners‚ who are chained down and cannot turn their heads in any direction‚ a cave‚ a fire‚ and some objects with a group of people who carry them. The prisoners can only look straight ahead at a wall‚ and the people behind them put objects in front of the fire. The objects in front of the fire cast shadows onto the wall that the prisoners are
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