Allegory of the Cave and The Truman Show Plato's Allegory of the Cave is a story of how the soul moves toward enlightenment. The allegory begins with prisoners in a cave that eventually break free to see the world and acquire great knowledge. The allegory has eight stages, beginning with belief and ending in cognition of the world of forms. Some prisoners will stay in the cave and others will venture out. ... "The Allegory of the Cave") Plato explains this with his eight stages of cognition. ...

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I believe Plato is saying that one who is enlightened has the mind to laugh at one coming from the darkness because this person coming from the darkness will soon be enlightened being able to see what he was unable to see in the darkness. On the other hand Plato is saying the unenlightened man canno...

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Plato's Republic - The Three Great Analogies The Allegory of the Cave, like most things in philosophy, can be interpreted in many different ways. ... The main point of the Allegory of the Cave is to give an example of the way that we all live our lives. ... I seem to think there is another meaning to the Allegory of the Cave. ... The Allegory says that it is painful to break the chains, and in most cases death is not pleasant. ... He expresses this theory with three approaches: his allegory of The Cave, his metaphor of the Divided Line and the Simile of the Sun. ...

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Plato's Allegory of the Cave is Book VII in his much larger work, The Republic. The Allegory of the Cave is a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon, the former telling us what he believes about reality and how we have a false interpretation of reality. ... He tells about prisoners who have been chained since childhood in a cave. ... The cave is the "sight world", where both the sight of truth and the sight of untruth exists. ... They are trapped in the part of the cave where untruth, or unreality exists. ...

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In analyzing the Matrix one will be able to see how Descartes" Meditations on Methodic doubt, his Evil Genius Hypothesis, and Plato's allegory of the cave are portrayed in this film. ... Plato's allegory of the cave can also be seen in the Matrix. Plato's theory is that we are like prisoners tied up on the floor of the cave. ... Thus like the prisoner in Plato's allegory that is freed and that goes and looks around, that also sees the cave and sees the fire burning which is producing the shadows inside the cave, Neo is like this prisoner in the cave and once freed from the ...

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Allegory of the cave- what do you think are the qualities of an "enlightened", educated person? How does your idea about education relate to the education of the prisoner in Plato's cave story? ... For him, the cave and shadows were his reality. ... If you don't this then you"ll be in the cave forever. ...

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In his theory Allegory of the cave he explains the reason why society needs to be educated, sees the good in people and says the "bad" actions one commits are not necessarily bad but pure ignorance to which can be changed by education. ... " In his theory of Allegory of the Cave he refers the sun as knowledge, what makes things visible is therefore leading us to what is real. The shadows in the cave are reflections our minds make us believe not necessarily true. The darkness of cave is enabling us to be able to know the "real" world and the darker it is the less we see...

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