TOK Essay The Allegory of the Cave and The Matrix 03 December 2010 Many people think that what we know is not really what is real. This idea is shown through the story of The Allegory of the Cave and the movie‚ The Matrix. Both the movie and the story are similar (it is said that The Matrix is based on The Allegory) and the main plots of the two can be compared. In The Allegory of the Cave‚ the people are chained up by their legs and necks in a cave from an early age‚ facing a wall. From
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Allegory of the Cave Plato’s Allegory of the Cave envisions the world as a dark cave‚ with human beings as trapped prisoners‚ and all of their experiences as nothing but shadows on a wall. Plato was an Ancient Greek philosopher who founded the Academy and is the author of philosophical works of unparalleled influence in Western thought. Plato is informing us of the world around us‚ and is guiding the reader in the journey from ignorance to wisdom. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is meant to be
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“The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato‚ a prisoner living in a cave is forced to learn the truth. The shadows he sees are not real‚ but are made to seem like they are. He is taken up into the sun and learns the truth. Figuratively‚ the truth he learns is that God is real and the shadows being created by society are not. He has a choice to make on whether he will go back into the cave to tell others about what he learned‚ or stay and keep the truth hidden. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” is really about religion
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3 companies- Waitomo Caves‚ Skyline Queenstown‚ Real Journeys. How they started the product the offer At least 3 changes or milestones. The Waitomo Caves How they started The Waitomo caving system is a charitable society which was formed and incorporated in 1973. For 6 years the original waitomo museum operated from a small room in the historic waitomo caves hotel. In 1980 a purpose-built museum was erected on the present site in the centre of waitomo caves village and was doubled
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Allegory of the Cave The main subject of Aristotle’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’ are a group of prisoners who have been kept chained their entire lives in a cave with one opening to the outside. By way of this opening‚ in addition to a strategically placed wall and fire‚ they are able to see the shadows of individuals who pass by carrying different objects. The fire causes the shadows of the objects being carried to be projected onto the back wall of the cave‚ but the placement of the wall
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THE CAVE Timothy Eves May 13‚ 1989: I sat in a cave‚ one of a multitude of prisoners. For dinner‚ as for so many other meals‚ we were served steak. Tendrils of steam rose from our plates like beckoning fingers. The aroma penetrated our nostrils; our mouths watered. We took a bite: the meat was so tender that it practically melted on our tongues. We groaned with pleasure. Where the meat came from we didn’t know—and didn’t care. We simply reveled in the flavor‚ the texture‚ the juice dribbling down
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Allegory of the Modern Day Cave “Plato’s Allegory of the Cave” was the philosophical story of people who lived in this cave‚ and never left. They were bound to one spot‚ and could never move. The only light was this fire in the middle of the cave‚ that was on the other side of a wall that separated the fire from the cave dwellers. There were also other people who carried objects above their heads on the fire side of the wall. This made shadows on the actual cave walls‚ which were the only things
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Plato’s cave analogy is one of the most profound philosophical ideas of ancient and modern times. This simple idea‚ is that a prisoner who has only known a cave and its shadows on a wall as his only tangible reality‚ but then when released‚ learns the truth of existence‚ which none of his fellow prisoners can comprehend. This is used to explain the dangers of ignorant bliss and the rewards of true illumination. The cave analogy is an example of the importance of knowledge‚ it gives us a look into
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Chains of Society Plato’s Allegory of the Cave describes a gathering of subjects who have lived chained to a blank wall of a cave all of their lives. These slaves watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a smoldering fire behind them‚ and begin to give these shadows names. The shadows were the closest thing to reality for the prisoners. Then one person breaks away from the cave‚ realizing that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality‚ this slave begins to form
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wants to believe what reality really is‚ or if he wants to go back into the “Cave”. In the story‚ “The Allegory and the Cave” by Plato‚ they hold four prisoners in a dark cave with a fire going behind them. They see shadows from the people walking outside‚ but they don’t know what they are. One prisoner is freed and sees real light‚also known as a sign of life or freedom‚ but it hurts his eyes. He goes back into the cave and tells the rest of the group what he sees but they refuse to believe him
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