The cave is very dark because there is little light inside it and hardly seen the objects. There are some chained people on their necks as well as feet, these chained people cannot move easily. Similarly, there is also another world out of the cave world, but between these two worlds, a wall is raised. On the wall, many other people move with different things on their hands and their shadows fall in the cave world. The people inside the cave cannot raise their head completely so that they can only
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even realize it. The "Allegory of the Cave," by Plato, is more than just a story; it's a tool that can be applied to our life in almost any situation. For instance, looking into this story, I realize how much it is related and connected to religion. It is so easy to just do what everyone else is doing just to feel accepted. Which was me, a conformist, trying to fit in. Plato's story not only opened up my outlook on life, but was an interpretation of my allegory of the cave–being saved spiritually
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In my own opinion, I believe that the short story “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato is basically a story that represents the way in which people perceive what they to be reality. The story’s location is in a cave, where there are people who are chained down and forced to look at a wall that is in front of them, for their entire lives. They cannot stand up or move their heads in any direction. The cave is completely pitch black with the exception of a fire lit behind them, casting shadows upon the wall
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Zouheir Boussaid Serena Reavis ENG 111-0003S 22 June 2013, In “The Allegory of the Cave,” Plato presents his abstract view of human nature and truth, whereas Douglass presents his personal journal in “Learning to Read and Write.” Compare and contrast Plato and Douglass' essays and ideas. How might Douglass view Plato's allegory based on his experience? The most basic question that we can ask ourselves is: who and what am I? Moreover, the answer to this question about human nature (what
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The Allegory of the Cave and Disney Movies The Allegory of the Cave is one of many vivid and complex stories in Plato’s book entitled “The Republic”. The Allegory of the Cave is a story about the unseen truth of the outside world. The story takes place underground in a cave where prisoners are forced to watch a show that they believe is what life only consists of. There is a blazing fire set back behind them and a wall where puppets are displayed so that it casts images on the wall in front of
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Allegory of the Cave Kimberly McClure PHI 103 Prof. Victor Reppert February 28, 2014 The stages of the prisoner in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave are as follows: There are three prisoners who are tied to some rocks in a cave. They have been imprisoned in the cave since birth and can see nothing in front of them but a stone wall. When people would walk on the walkway the fire would cast shadows of the objects they were carrying on their heads onto the wall in front of the prisoners. The prisoners
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Unlike his mentor Socrates, Plato was both a writer and a teacher. His writings are in the form of dialogues, with Socrates as the principal speaker. In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato described symbolically the predicament in which mankind finds itself and proposes a way of salvation. The Allegory presents, in brief form, most of Plato's major philosophical assumptions: his belief that the world revealed by our senses is not the real world but only a poor copy of it, and that the real world can
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Allegory of the Cave, Plato described symbolically the predicament in which mankind finds itself and proposes a way of salvation. The Allegory presents, in brief form, most of Plato's major philosophical assumptions: his belief that the world revealed by our senses is not the real world but only a poor copy of it, and that the real world can only be apprehended intellectually; his idea that knowledge cannot be transferred from teacher to student, but rather that education consists in directing student's
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does the allegory of the cave suggest about the nature of education? The allegory of the cave is supposed to be a metaphor for the world we are living in. That finding this truth or overall good is how people will be able to gain the most knowledge. Socrates is explaining to his student, Glaucon, how he believes it’s our own ignorance of goodness and truth that will prevent a man from gaining this nature of education. What Socrates fails to mention in my own opinion is how this allegory supports
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The Allegory of the cave was created by Plato a Greek philosopher during 514a-520a. The Allegory of the cave symbolizes a thought and how we see reality. The Allegory of the cave basically came from a conversation Plato describes that went on between Socrates and his brother Glaucon. The conversation Socrates has with his brother elaborates on humanity and society. Everything in the cave has a different meaning when it comes down to describing the cave, the shadows, the escape, and the return. The
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