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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Arlet Duran Response to “The Allegory of the Cave” What is truth? In “The Allegory of the Cave”‚ I believe truth is being portrayed as something we as humans see‚ maybe only once‚ without it even being the whole truth. Even then we neglect to see “other truths.” According to Socrates‚ and I quote‚ “From the beginning people like this have never managed‚ whether on their own or with the help by others‚ to see anything besides the shadows that are [continually] projected on the wall opposite
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The “Allegory of the Cave” can be explained by using the Abercombie’s perspective. The story is about the one of the prisoners who is chained inside the cave since his childhood. The prisoner’s understanding of the world is very limited to what he can see and hear in the cave such as the shadow and the voice of the people crossing behind. People’s schema is always influenced by the context and used to interpret the information‚ so that the prisoner believes the shadow is the real object and the voice
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HooooookThe Allegory of the Cave is an essay written by Plato. Plato was once a student of Socrates and many of his writings‚ including this piece‚ contains discussions and dialogues Socrates held between his students and Plato transferring his words into writings. Plato describes the idea to what it means to become enlightened and what it will take to reach enlightenment. In order to achieve enlightenment according to Plato‚ one must pull themselves up from the material world and climb up the ladder
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Allegory of the Cave By Plato Socrates: --Behold! human beings living in a underground den‚ which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood‚ and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move‚ and can only see before them‚ being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance‚ and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will
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