“Describe the meaning of the shadows in the analogy of the cave.” The analogy of the cave is what Plato used to portray his idea of the World of Forms more clearly. In it, he tells us to imagine that there are a group of prisoners who have been held in a cave all their lives, and have never left it or had any experience of the outside world. They are all chained facing a wall, so that they can never see the cave’s entrance. At the entrance of the cave, there is a fire, and whenever someone or something
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University of Phoenix Material Types of Myths Worksheet Knowledge, Belief, Myth, and Religion Directions: Answer the following question on knowledge, belief, myth, and religion in 3 to 5 sentences. How are knowledge, belief, myth, and religion related to one another and how are they distinct from one another? Use an example from your life or popular culture to explain this relationship. To understand myth or religion people need to have the knowledge and need to belief
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Plato describes a cave, in which there are three prisoners. The prisoners are tied down to rocks, arms and legs bound and their head is tied so that they can only see the stonewall in front of them. These prisoners have been here since birth and no nothing about the world outside of this cave. Behind the prisoners is a fire and a walkway to separate them. People walk along this walkway daily carrying a lot of things: animals, plants, wood, and stone. The prisoners obviously cannot see these objects
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“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.” – Voltaire The quest for god; even if there are different forms of theism, is based on the same principles of the need for god(s) in the human mind: Individuals need god to fulfill their human desire of being united with something bigger than themselves, due to the fact that there is a feeling of separation and disconnection from the world surrounding humanity, being outside the environment in which we exist (more or less like Adam and
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leadership for Plato while Power is the basis of leadership for Machievelli. In the Republic the Allegory of the Cave represents Plato's views on philosophy. Basically, we are all in the cave and Philosophy is what brings us out of the cave. Plato believes that Philosophy is the highest form of inquiry, just because it alone involves no presuppositions. I do not believe this to be true because The Allegory presents, in brief form most of Plato's major philosophical assumptions. Meaning of statement
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sitting position forced to stare at a wall . In a dark cave ,to a post ,4 men,are given the only source of reality which is in front of them on a wall that is dimly lighted from a fire that is positioned above and behind them.Between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised platform with a low wall built to hid the bodies of the marionette’s who are displaying the shadow of puppets and shapes onto the wall.These men have been in the cave so long that they have the belief and without a doubt that
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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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Turning On the Light: The Role of Darkness in the Search for Enlightenment Your fingers scrabble blindly against the wall of the dark room, searching for the familiar shape of a light switch. The recognizable protrusion appears beneath your fingertips and with a crackle the fluorescent light of your dorm room flickers on. In that second of searching, all manner of monster and fiend flashed before your eyes, lurking in the shadows. In this sense, the looming darkness was both your barrier – sightlessly
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enlightened, and attempts to convince the others to leave the cave with him. This illustrates that some people either do not want to know the truth, or that they choose the easy path. Sometimes knowing the truth can harm someone. Plato describes people that do not choose to leave their cave, saying, “I don’t see how they could see anything else…if they were compelled to keep their heads unmoving all their lives!” (Plato). The people in the cave looking at the shadows have grown up in that “ignorance
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Neo meets Morpheus who shows him that people are under a computer program called The Matrix. Cypher has been shown this as well but tries to forget what he has seen and move on with his life. This task is not so easy. We see also in “The Allegory of the Cave” that the task to forget what you have seen, and lived for so long is a lie. Socrates presents to Glaucon a scenario of men who could only see shadows and that what they saw was their life. Just like in The Matrix, people believed that their
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