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Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra‚ India are a Buddhist monastery complex of twenty-nine rock-cut cave monuments containing paintings and sculpture considered to be masterpieces of both "Buddhist religious art"[1] and "universal pictorial art"[2] The caves are located just outside the village of Ajinṭhā in Aurangabad District in the Indian state of Maharashtra (N. lat. 20 deg. 30 ’ by E. long. 75 deg. 40 ’). Since 1983‚ the Ajanta Caves have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Excavation of the caves began
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In the Allegory of the Cave by Plato‚ there was a group of prisoners who lived in a cave since they were born. These people could not see anything besides straight ahead from where they were. Behind these prisoners there was a fire and puppets in which they told stories. The prisoners were able to see the shadows caused by the fire and puppets‚ because that was the only thing they saw they believed that the shadows were the most real things in this world. The shadows told stories about people‚ trees
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philosophy The Allegory of the Cave that most people are bound to their obliviousness and materialism‚ either by willful rejection or ignorance‚ which in turn makes them metaphorically blind to the true nature of reality. For instance‚ the people chained within the dark cave is a symbol for the world we currently reside in (or was resided in)‚ and the chains represent each one of us‚ who are either knowingly or unknowingly chained to the material world. The shadows the cave dwellers saw is a metaphor
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The Cave of Lascaux During the prehistoric time‚ people would express their thought by drawing many pictures in the caves and usually drew on the walls and ceilings inside the caves. The most common pictures in cave paintings are big wild animals‚ such as horses‚ tigers‚ deer‚ and tracings of human hands. Many cave paintings were found all over Europe and usually‚ they were on the wall of abandoned cave with the blocked entrance for many years‚ so the paintings were well preserved inside the
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Illustrating Plato’s ‘The Allegory of the Cave’ Camille Rodriguez Mr. Minifie HZT4UR-01 September 28‚ 2009 Bibliography Pacquette‚ Paul G. and Gini-Newman‚ Laura (2003) Philosophy: Questions and Theories. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ‚ p.4-63‚ 117‚ 440-441 One way to understand philosophy is to draw the meaning of Plato’s story “The Allegory of the Cave” (Philosophy: Q&T‚ p.8). Plato is a 360 BCE Greek philosopher who focused on metaphysics‚ ethics‚ knowledge‚ and
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in “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato who are physically chained to the estate only being powerful to see what is in front of them. In the two readings‚ the authors search and take apart the problem that relations have in not face ready for their worst and not wanting to turn their living to the reform. In the history of “The Lesson” the students are taken out of their sense of comfort‚ just as the person who got to pilled out of there cave in “The Allegory of the Cave.” The students in “The Lesson”
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the feminist movement one can relate a person’s developing knowledge about the movement to Plato’s allegory of the cave. The comparison of the allegory of the cave to a person’s understanding about the feminist movement allows one to understand the varying opinions that people have about this movement. One of the many things that Plato is known for is his theory of forms.
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fall into one of two broad categories. Paintings and engravings found in caves along walls and ceilings are referred to as "parietal" art. The caves where paintings have been found are not likely to have served as shelter‚ but rather were visited for ceremonial purposes. The second category‚ "mobiliary" art‚ includes small portable sculpted objects which are typically found buried at habitation sites. In the painted caves of western Europe‚ namely in France and Spain‚ we witness the earliest unequivocal
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Leaving the Cave 1. According to the author‚ what do most people think happiness consists of? * Most people think that happiness is consisted of looking good‚ having a nice car‚ nice clothes‚ and a life based on the images and truth of popular magazines and television “reality” shows. According to the author says that people do not know the reality because the materialistic illusion makes people to be happy. 2. In Plato’s myth‚ what takes place in the cave that relates to the material
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