Explain the analogy of the cave in Plato’s republic (25 marks) Plato, 428-347 B.C., was an Athenian philosopher who lived in Ancient Greece. In 407 B.C. he became a pupil and friend of Socrates. After living for a time at the Syracuse court, Plato founded (c.387 B.C.) near Athens the most influential school of the ancient world, the Academy, where he taught until his death. The “Republic” is one of Plato’s greatest books that he has written. Plato’s presents one of the most famous analogies in
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narrowed and shaped by running water, different types of weathering like snow, hail, rain and wind and of course erosion isn’t too far from it either. Part 2 A cave is a natural made hollow and underground passage or opening to the surface. Most caves are called karst landscapes or even sinkholes and are mostly limestone caves. Rain water, running water and carbon dioxide mixed in sometimes with carbonic acid is what is collected and is what wears away on these
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Rebecca Flores Professor Jim Read English 101 Online 28 August 2013 “The Allegory of the Cave” In “The Allegory of the Cave” a fictional dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon takes place. As the story unwinds, the role of personal knowledge unfolds and begins to impact the message conveyed. Plato took the liberty to separate his story into stages as the prisoner starts to come to the realization that he has been living an illusion all along. As the illusion turns into a realization, one becomes
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and nations over religion. Religion has had a hand in changing the face of this world for millions of years and a hand in the development of nations. Religion has been and still is one of the most controversial subjects known to man. Paleolithic cave art was closely linked to the ‘conceptual discovery’ of the symbolic and religious world of primitive peoples. This denied any hint of symbolic and intellectual complexity among hunter-gatherers, made it impossible to fit such art within a ‘savage’
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to teach a few elected students, who could prove themselves able to understand them. The student had to be a good listener, but first he had to prompt the storytelling with a question. Then, his teacher, answered with a parable. “The Allegory of The Cave” is an ancient parable used by Socrates, who is a classical Greek philosopher, to teach his student Glaucon, what is like to be a lover of wisdom and a seeker of the truth. He starts his lesson with this
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The meaning of the Allegory of the Cave, to me, can be described as a person or persons being blinded by what is actually happening in the “real world.” What they believe to be true is not actually true but since they have only been shown one viewpoint they have nothing else to go off of to form an opinion. When a person is shown what is actually real at first they cannot believe and would prefer to be back in their own world. Eventually, though, they come to accept the reality and anything else
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fact the only image we can see of the object as the real existence is in an alternate world which the prisoners cannot view. Alternatively, the shadows also could symbolise the darkness and unknown in which the prisoners are experiencing as since the cave is encased in darkness and also hidden away, none of the imprisoned people truly know what is fake and what is real, consequently it means that the prisoners are concealed away from the truth depths of the world and their views are fake, this contributing
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round you: mechanical pencil, light fixture, chair, cell phone, and computer. You soon will note that all these objects, and their numerous individual components, l.3 are made from a variety of materials and have been produced and assembled into the items that you now see. You also will note that sofne objects, such as a paper clip, nail, spoon, and door key, are made of a single component. l.4 However, as shown in Table 1.1, the vast majority of objects around us consist of numerous l.5 individual
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just happened to coincide that year with the Jewish holiday of Purim and the Muslim month of Ramadan, an American-born physician dressed as an Israeli soldier made his way, as tens of thousands of Jewish and Muslim worshippers had before him, to the cave of Machpelah in Hebron. There, at the tomb of Abraham, Jews and Muslims prayed awkwardly with one another as they had for centuries. On common ground, each invoked the God of Abraham in the traditional manner prescribed by their respective traditions
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from experience. Whenever we experience something, there we get the knowledge. According to Plato, we have innate ideas. They are buried in the depth of our soul. Senses are only used to jog are memories about certain things. In the Allegory of the Cave, it shows that we, humans, are contented on what we see. We lack courage to know and explore reality. We are blinded by the things perceived by our senses. In contrast to Plato’s theory, Aristotle believed that
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