it even further. The famous Greek philosopher Plato, in his work Allegory of the Cave provides insight into how a recession can be perpetuated due to the public’s perspective. In his allegory, humans are depicted as prisoners chained in a cave only seeing shadows from the light and creatures that walk behind them. One of the prisoners was released and was exposed to the reality outside the cave. Allegory of the Cave can be interpreted in many ways. The way I see it, people accept reality
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April 30, 2010 Page 2 The Allegory of the Cave from the faculty of Washington College, is the article I found that gave me meaning as to what Plato was trying to say . It showed that the Prisoners saw only the shadows of what the puppet men were carrying and they only said what they
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Rhetoric was used by George Orwell in the novel “1984” by representing what it is like to have your freedoms taken away. The main protagonist, Winston Smith, often finds himself struggling with himself and others to find the truth. In Plato’s “The Allegory of a Cave”, the character struggles to get his point across to his friends who refuse to accept the truth. Plato and George Orwell use rhetoric to explain the importance of freedom, whether the oppressor is someone else or yourself. George Orwell’s “1984”
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learn the truth. The Theory of Forms makes a distinction between those objects that are real and those that are only real in our minds. His dialogues, like the Allegory of the Cave, portray knowledge as the process of leaving the cave and going into the sunlight. The people in the cave find their reality in the shadows cast in the cave and assume there can never be anything beyond these shadows. These shadows symbolise how the world that we see is just a shadow or reflection of what is real. For
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Plato: Illuminating the Human Condition In “The Allegory of the Cave,” Plato starts his writing with, “and now, I said, let me show a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened…” (66). The definition of allegory is “the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence; also: an instance (as in a story or painting) of such expression” (Merriam-Webster). Plato’s works were written before the birth of Christ. Yet it is
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the other people in the cave. The change in light blinds the man again, which alarms the cave people. Still he attempts to enlighten them, but their ignorance and fear of this knowledge blinds them, just as the difference in light between the cave and the outside world blinded the man. They both have truths that are similar, but prevent each other from seeing both sides of the same story. The free man from the cave went further than the others, he saw things that the cave people could not even
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Explain the concepts of Plato’s forms (25 marks) Plato believed in two worlds, the sensible world and the intelligible world. Within the intelligible world there exists the realm of forms which possesses true knowledge and perfection. The realm of Forms is eternal, unchanging, there are abstracts of a perfect object and organisms (human beings or animals), meaning there is a perfect abstract of a chair in the intelligible world which possess a certain value which cannot be possessed in the sensible
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Going into college you rarely hear anyone say ‘I want to pursue an education in the liberal arts.’ You may hear students interest in majors such as business, or nursing, or even engineering, but never liberal arts. Why is that? An education in liberal arts is just as important, if not more, as an education in any other field. Allow me to explain why. The liberal arts teaches more than just one general skill. It of course provides a general education, however, it also provides an advantage
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seeing my parents working and bringing home money. I wanted to experience having a job myself and see how it was. After I had a taste of having a job and having responsibilities I saw how difficult it was. My experience is related to Plato’s, “Allegory of the Cave” because like the prisoner’s I too was blinded by the truth. When I was a kid I remember going out every Friday and eating out with my family. I do not remember a time when we did not do that. I believed it was really easy to go to work every
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those things so they stay inside the box.” (Byron Hurt) Hip-Hop’s impractical ideas of manhood have become a box resembling a prison, the same way Plato’s cave was a prison to its own inhabitants in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. In the Allegory of the Cave, prisoners are chained in a cave, unable to turn their heads. is The wall of the cave all is they can see. Behind them is a fire. There is a wall between the fire and the prisoners, where the shadow-makers can walk. The shadow-makers are behind
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