Commentary Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is the factual perception on what human’s ignorant minds accept whatever they perceive without envisioning the reality. His use of “dark” imagery illustrates how a person is trapped and isolated in his own “cave” and conceives everything without visually seeing the “light” outside the cave. He conveys the idea that the “prisoners” are stuck and “chained” in their own reality because they were only shown one perspective from “childhood”. Plato wisely suggests
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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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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave addresses important aspects of a person’s’ frame of mind; through indirectly comparing pieces of the story to mental exploitation. Through his story‚ Plato urges the reader to find truth and wisdom through elevating their personal thinking. A concept he would die to make known - some two thousand years ago - now bears a relevant message in our world today. The message Plato left behind the story lies around perception‚ and how knowledge obtained through what we see is
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Reality‚ Truth‚ and Understanding The Allegory of the Cave by Plato questions truth‚ reality‚ and demonstrates how we are similar to the prisoners within the cave. Every person has a personal “cave” and only with knowledge and understanding can we escape from the captivity ignorance. The prisoners in the story were only allowed to see shadows in the cave and it’s what they believed as true. In the story Plato states that the prisoners came to know reality as nothing more as “the shadows of those
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According to how Plato depicts prisoners‚ I think I am a prisoner. To begin I can say that Plato through his allegory illustrates how we are all prisoners in this world. He does that by comparing our lack of knowledge of what is real and what is not to his prisoners who knew nothing except the shadows of reality‚ and who believed what they saw as real. For example‚ at the beginning when Plato depicts the kind of prisoners he is talking about‚ Glaucon responds by saying that it is a strange
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misconceptions. The Allegory of the Cave parallels Socrates’ struggle‚ as a philosopher‚ to enlighten the ignorant people in the world through his teachings of truth and happiness‚ only to be bitterly rejected
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Why am I here and how does the allegory of cave inform my answer? It’s quite challenging to relate an allegory to our lives. But if we think carefully and list those objects and their corresponded symbols: prisoners represent imperfect human‚ the shadow represents illusion of the truth‚ prison represents limitations that hold us back from getting close to the truth…etc‚ I start to understand that I myself could be the prisoner who lives comfortably in his narrow worldview and have difficulties taking
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Prompt: Define Plato ’s “Allegory of the Cave”. What is the central message? Is he describing education alone? Where does politics come in? Plato is known to many as one of the most influential and greatest philosophers to have lived. Plato represents his idea of reality and the truth about what we perceive through one of his famous writings‚ “The Allegory of the Cave”. The philosophical writing is in the form of an allegory‚ which is “a story in which the characters and situations actually represent
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THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE By Plato The well-known myth of the cavern‚ is used by Plato as an allegorical explanation of the situation in which the man is in regard to the knowledge that surrounds him. Plato divided this allegory in three parts: 1. Description of the situation of the prisoners in the cavern. 2. Description of the process of liberation of one of them and of his access to the top or real world. 3. Brief interpretation of the myth. Plato asks us to imagine that we are like a few prisoners
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the limits of reason and morality. Having freedom equals having the power to think‚ to speak‚ and to act without externally imposed restrains. As a matter of fact‚ finding freedom in order to live free is the common idea in Plato with "The Allegory of the Cave"; Henry David Thoreau with " Where I lived and What I lived for"; and Jean Paul Sartre with " Existentialism". Generally‚ Plato‚ Thoreau‚ and Sartre suggested that human life should be free. They differ in what that freedom is. Plato thinks
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