However, after reading and taking to heart Maya Angelou's "Graduation", Plato's "Allegory of the Cave", Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael", and Parker J. ... After comparing "Ishmael" to the "Allegory of the Cave", I realized that several aspects of freedom are addressed in each work align with my new-found philosophy of freedom. ... Similarly, in the Allegory of the Cave, Plato emphasizes the need for people to push beyond the chains which imprison an unenlightened mind in order to crawl out of the dark, captivating cave and move towards ...

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He uses the cave allegory to highlight how human beings will not survive the darkness unless they act together and be led by a philosopher king who leads them to the light. ... The fact that this allegory applies to any person in any circumstance proves that it is indeed our unchangeable nature to be political. ... Since the primitive clans of the cave man to our modern day sophisticated society, politics has always been the fabric of governance. ...

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In essence, the allegory of the cave is equivalent to the conditioning used in a state that would be exposed to censorship. The idea of the prisoner who escapes from the cave is comparable to an individual who begins to question their previously held beliefs. ... This is an immediate link to the failing system of a censored state as it symbolizes being captured in a cave. ...

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Plato discusses his theory of mimesis in his "Allegory of the Cave" in Book VII of The Republic. The allegory tells of prisoners being chained to a wall in a dark cave. ... Plato's allegory then represents society's inability to see larger truths. ...

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Religion is the practice of belief, in most cases identifying to the existence of a divine, transcendent being or beings. The proposals of Plato selected to be discussed will adhere to a general definition that religion is "a strong belief in a supernatural power that control human destiny".1 This will enable an appropriate scope into the discussion, and allow us to explore ideas beyond defining religion as simply codified practises of prayer, ritual and religious law, as these were not substantial within Plato's work. Plato's ideas that were contained within a religious co...

• Word Count: 2979
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