Allegory of the Cave is Plato's explanation of the education of the soul toward enlightenment. He sees it as what happens when someone is educated to the level of philosopher. He contends that they must "go back into the cave" or return to the everyday world of politics, greed and power struggles. The Allegory also attacks people who rely upon or are slaves to their senses. The chains that bind the prisoners are the senses. The fun of the allegory is to try to put all the details of the cave into your
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------------------------------------------------- PLATO’S ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE ------------------------------------------------- (flow of events) Plato's allegory of the cave describes a group of prisoners living in a dark cave. They are bound in chains preventing them from moving easily. Being stuck in the same place and position all the time, they have nothing to do but stare at the wall in front of them. A fire casts a light against that wall on a platform in the cave. While people on the outside of the cave go their own business, the
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“The Allegory of the Cave” to describe the four levels of knowledge. In “The Allegory of the Cave” Plato portrays four different stages in a cave. These four different stages are metaphors that describe what he believed to be the different stages of knowledge: imagination, thought, understanding and good. He illustrates his metaphor by depicting a group of prisoners who have spent their entire life in the darkened cave and their passage through the distinct stages of the cave, with them starting at
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point clear: As you remember, a man manages to go out of the cave where he and his fellows have been confined since birth. The outside world is so rich in light and color, once he gets used to the powerful light of the sun, that he decides to return to the cave where his friends are still living in order to share this new marvelous space with them. Nevertheless, his friends don’t believe him. They can’t understand a world like that. The cave is all they know. They haven’t worn the “violet tinted glasses”
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analogies. This is the most famous of all of his analogies. Thus the Allegory of the Cave was born. It describes Socrates’s levels of belief and knowledge, as well as describing the role of the philosopher in a society. Without going in to depth about the analogy, I must answer the question if this relates to political life now. Socrates imagines a cave with a long passage leading upward in to the light. In this cave there are people who have been bound up here since birth. They are positioned in
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The Matrix, The Cave, and The Meditation The topic of what is real and what is false can seem to be very definite to many people. Typically, it is easy for one to think that if something is tangible it must be real. If asked what is real, one might say, “ The things that I can see, touch, smell, hear, and feel are what is real.” However, there are some people who are not satisfied with this simple answer and would challenge this view. The hit movie The Matrix, Plato’s famous cave allegory, and Rene
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Plato describes his allegorical cave as a “cavernous cell under the ground,” fit with prisoners “with their legs and necks tied up.” It’s described as a very undesirable place, yet I’m situated right in the middle of it. By choice. Okay, that was a bit of a dramatic start. Let me explain. I interpret Plato’s cave not as a physical place, but in a more abstract sense. To me, the cave represents the various pressures that are placed upon me by society; the notion that success is achieved by blindly
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The Allegory of The Cave’ by Plato – The Meaning The Allegory of the cave by Plato should not be taken at face value. In essays and exams, whoever is marking it expects you to have a deeper understanding of the meaning of the theory. You can then use these to think about criticisms and then to form your own opinion. The Cave •In Plato’s theory, the cave represents people who believe that knowledge comes from what we see and hear in the world – empirical evidence. The cave shows that believers
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Plato’s Analogy of the Cave(10 marks) Plato’s analogy of the cave is a complex story to do with his theory of the forms. It is a symbolic story which gives a vague illustration of the forms and how we as humans are all ignorant to the truth. It’s a story in which prisoners, representing the human race, are all chained to chairs. The chains represent our ignorance to the true forms and the chairs are our tendency to stay with what we find familiar and comfortable. The people are chained facing
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Rick OMahony Kaplan University 24 June 2014 Unit 2 Assignment “The Allegory of the Cave”, the 7th book of Plato’s, The Republic”, can be interpreted in many ways. Depending on the point of view of the reader, the message can describe the trials and tribulations of man in general to the roadway of life and all of the detours along the way. The first entry of the allegory has Socrates describing a cave in which there are prisoners. The prisoners have limited sight since they are chained at the
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