programming his thoughts‚ and experiences. All the humans were in this huge machine with their brains connected to a bunch of wires‚ and their thoughts were being inputted by the computer. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave‚ there is a similar situation. In his description of the prisoners of the cave‚ the prisoners were chained down‚ and only able to look a wall. There was a fire behind them and shadows from other walking by were played out on the wall for the prisoners to see. They believed the shadows
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The Allegory of the Cave Response paper The Allegory of the Cave is one of the most philosophical writings based on reality I have ever read. I have read a lot from Henry David Thoreau‚ from C.S. Lewis and others‚ but this piece of Plato’s book ‘Republic’ made a big impression on me mostly because it was written in Ancient Greece in the fourth century B.C. My favorite part of the book is in the first paragraph: “like the screen at a puppet show‚ which hides the performers while they show
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story “The Myth of the Cave” by Plato are limited in their similarities. Even though the similarities are few‚ what is similar provides a big punch because of the deeper meaning in these works. One major thing the stories have in common is that both stories are allegories. An allegory is a work that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning‚ typically being moral or religious based. The flock from Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the remaining prisoners from “The Myth of the Cave” have many similarities
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Are African Americans Still Oppressed? African Americans in society today like the prisoners in the Allegory of the Cave are hostage to their own mentality. The two characteristics commonly shared between both is ignorance to reality and a reluctance to change. Thus in the essay the prisoners are locked and chained down in darkness with only a glow of light that allows for little sight. In turn objects placed in front of the glow cast shadows before them. These shadows are then interpreted as
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knowledge is eternal and we would then understand reality. This is connected to Plato’s Allegory of The Cave (Book VII – The Republic). In the Allegory of The Cave‚ Plato analyzes individuals untrained in the Theory of Forms to prisoners (soul) in a cave (body)‚ chained to the wall with no possibility of turning their heads and moving their hands. With flame smoldering behind them‚ they could only see the wall of the cave and the shadows of the puppets put in the middle of them and the fire. The prisoners
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The Matrix‚ “The Allegory of the Cave‚” and “The Meditations on First Philosophy‚” readings all seem to have one common thread. These are still the age old questions that remains unanswered‚ “Am I real‚” “is the world real‚” “is anything real?” These questions or state of mind has been asked and answered by so many people beyond these readings that it is overwhelmingly‚ one of the largest subjects not only in philosophy‚ but also in non-fiction‚ fiction and science fiction writings. Writers have
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in his Allegory of the Cave? What are the "shadows" of our times? -After the prisoners are released from the cave‚ why are they unable to see ID QUOD EST‚ namely‚ REALITY as it is? -What does "the Sun" symbolize? Why do you think that? How so? Because I love Socrates I find everything Plato writes thoroughly interesting. The minute he opened this part of The Republic with “how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened‚” I was interested. The part in the Allegory of the cave that stood
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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave World History Honors In reading the philosophical works of Allegory of the Cave by Plato‚ I have come to the conclusion that he is trying to inform about education. In the writing‚ to me‚ the cave symbolizes that they basically have a daily routine with no variables. Another way of putting that is they live in the dark. The chains represent that they are bound by their own beliefs. The shadows represent a state of paranoia because they always feel like someone is
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Thoughts on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave The allegory of the cave that appears in Book VII of Plato’s Republic is a well-known text for good reason: it is a brilliant allegory on the nature of the human condition in its relationship to knowledge‚ and it forces the careful reader to reflect on Plato’s implications about different kinds of knowledge. For the Greek philosopher Plato‚ the true reality exists in the world of ideas‚ a world that is invisible
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1.) "The Allegory of the Cave" - We often hear of various movements that are set out to try to protect our freedoms. We spend most of lives trying to defend our rights and keep ourselves liberated. However‚ how truly free are we? "The Allegory of the Cave" a story of prisoners in a cave ‚ chained facing upward‚ by the legs and necks. They cannot move but their eyes are faced straight ahead at a wall. This wall is their world. They see the shadows of people‚ some carrying objects and others not
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