Plato's Allegory Of The Cave
Unit 2 Plato’s “Allegory” Assignment
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Kaplan University
HU250 – 08
In the book The Republic, Plato through “the Allegory of the cave” makes a difference between illusion as a truth and the truth as a reality. In that scenario, Plato used the cave, the flame, the shadow, the sun and the return to the old “world” to demonstrate:
That knowledge comes from what we see and hear in the nature, it uses the cave as the hotbed of misunderstanding. He believes that the shadow seen in the wall and being interpreted by the prisoners as the truth is simply the reflection of the truth and that anyone no matter his rank within this “world of truth” is ignorant of the truth in real nature.
Plato uses the sun as the light of life for philosophers and the knowledge of people and the period the prisoner spent out of the cave for its first time is seen as the journey of a philosopher trying to understand and establish the different between the “truth” in the cave and the reality. Once the reality established, the prisoner wanted to free other prisoners because he believes they were living a false reality and this persuasion created conflicts. This demonstrates furthermore how a desire to change old habits known as the “true” can be challenging (Parker, 2005).
I started a job a few …show more content…
The context is different as I was raised in Africa as opposed to my kids. Imagine what one can do in the U.S without a high school diploma at least and the reality is that I tried to what I wanted to be just with a minimum level of education and no funds, but I realized after few years that it was almost impossible and therefore I went back to
Your Name Here
Kaplan University
HU250 – 08
In the book The Republic, Plato through “the Allegory of the cave” makes a difference between illusion as a truth and the truth as a reality. In that scenario, Plato used the cave, the flame, the shadow, the sun and the return to the old “world” to demonstrate:
That knowledge comes from what we see and hear in the nature, it uses the cave as the hotbed of misunderstanding. He believes that the shadow seen in the wall and being interpreted by the prisoners as the truth is simply the reflection of the truth and that anyone no matter his rank within this “world of truth” is ignorant of the truth in real nature.
Plato uses the sun as the light of life for philosophers and the knowledge of people and the period the prisoner spent out of the cave for its first time is seen as the journey of a philosopher trying to understand and establish the different between the “truth” in the cave and the reality. Once the reality established, the prisoner wanted to free other prisoners because he believes they were living a false reality and this persuasion created conflicts. This demonstrates furthermore how a desire to change old habits known as the “true” can be challenging (Parker, 2005).
I started a job a few …show more content…
The context is different as I was raised in Africa as opposed to my kids. Imagine what one can do in the U.S without a high school diploma at least and the reality is that I tried to what I wanted to be just with a minimum level of education and no funds, but I realized after few years that it was almost impossible and therefore I went back to