The "Allegory of the Cave" by Plato represents an extended metaphor that is to contrast the way in which we perceive and believe in what is reality. The thesis behind his allegory is the basic tenets that all we perceive are imperfect "reflections" of the ultimate Forms‚ which subsequently represent truth and reality. The purpose of this allegory defines clearly the process of enlightenment. For a man to be enlightened‚ he must above all desire the freedom to explore and express himself. Plato’s
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Allegory to Myth In the Republic‚ Plato uses reason to model the ultimate form of civilization where everyone achieves his/her human potential. This should not be confused with individual equality‚ for Plato sees a harmonious and virtuous community where citizens are under a hierarchy and working together for the greater good of the state. The question‚ however‚ remains: How does one achieve Plato’s ideal state when there is evil and deception in the world? In answering this question‚ Plato puts
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In the story of “The Allegory of the Cave”‚ written by Plato found in his book The Republic. To sum it up‚ “The Allegory of the Cave” is about prisoners who are locked in a cave and who are forced to watch the shadows of everything that is happening outside of the cave. Surprisingly one prisoner is freed and dragged out the cave against their will. Eyes are difficult to adjust to the very bright light outside the cave. Once they adjust he sees life is more than just dark shadows‚ there are colors
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The Allegory of the Cave The Allegory means a lot to people who are very mystical and like to think of different things about life. The allegory is a story about these prisoners whom since they’ve been children have been locked away deep inside a cave with chains all over their bodies including their heads making them be immobilized and their heads facing one certain wall. To the backs of these prisoners there is a fire and between the prisoners and the fire stands a way in which men carry various
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Deeper Look into the Cave True reality is not obvious to most of us. We mistake what we see and hear to be reality and truth. This is the basic premise for Plato’s Allegory of the Cave‚ in which prisoners sit in a cave chained down‚ and are forced to watch images of vessels‚ statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone cast on the wall in front of them. They have no other option but to accept these views as reality and they are unable to grasp their overall situation: the cave and images are
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HUM 2220 — GREEK/ROMAN HUMANITIES WORKSHEET FOR PLATO’S ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE (See pp. 326-327 at back of textbook for this reading.) PART I - Listed below are items from the Allegory which have symbolic meaning. Explain what each stands for or symbolizes in the story‚ being mindful of Plato’s belief in two different realms (or worlds) of knowledge—the physical and spiritual—and the different types of truth/Truth that exist in each realm. ( a) The world around us b) regular people c) Things we perceive
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Upon reading the Allegory of the Cave‚ one can see that Plato is arguing the importance of defining the theory of what is really being seen versus illusions that we see and think are reality. In this play‚ prisoners are chained by their feet and necks so that they can not move their bodies or their heads‚ forcing them to look straight ahead at a stone wall. A fire is burning behind them and people are walking with sculptures across a platform in front of the fire‚ creating projected images onto
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The Allegory of the Cave‚ written by Plato‚ was a very interesting read for me. It got me to think how alike we are to those prisoners in the cave. Just like them‚ we “see” or rather perceive shadows on a wall in our daily lives‚ but not in the sense of literal shadows‚ but in the form of events and desires that we may have. To the prisoners‚ the shadows were a “limitation” to their reality. For us today‚ I feel that our fears are our limitations; the things that stop us from seeing what is actual
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Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” discuss the influence that some of these various teaching methods have on an individual. Freire’s work names and describes two specific approaches which are referred to as the banking method and the problem-posing method. Similarly‚ though in a vastly more abstract way‚ Plato outlines two other ways of learning about the world through metaphoric prisoners within a cave. Though my own educational
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