Plato is considered one of the greatest philosophers in history. His "Allegory of the Cave" gives us great insight into the human condition. ... Plato's cave has several such symbols, as well as some that are not so obvious. ... The prisoners in the cave represent humanity. ... The only noises the prisoners hear are echoed off the cave wall. ...
In my essay, I will discuss how Plato's Allegory of the Cave shows his philosophical views on reality versus imagination, and what they need to do to reach this clarification. ... Plato's mentor was Socrates, as he uses him in the Allegory of the Cave. ... The Allegory of the cave is a way of explaining what Plato is trying to get across to people by looking at appearance versus reality, and the steps leading to reality. ... Plato's cave has people who are uneducated on theory of forms, chained, unable to move their heads or limbs, facing the wall. ... Plato does a great job usi...
Allegory of the Cave and The Truman Show Plato's Allegory of the Cave is a story of how the soul moves toward enlightenment. ... 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. ... (Grube, G.M.A., Plato Republic) This is the third stage, Awareness, the prisoners leave the comfort of the cave to go into the sunlight of the world. ... The World of Forms is Plato's idea of perfection and the immortal soul. ...
Plato was a philosopher who believed in higher education and was curios about the way humans learned. Socrates was Plato's mentor who had a major influence on Plato's life. Therefore, it led Plato to writing The Republic. ... Characters of the cave, who are the prisoners, have lived their life in ignorance when they knew nothing of the outside world. ... The cave myth is more meaningful and symbol when read carefully and when influence takes place. ...
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 cannot laugh at the enlightened man coming from the light back into the darkness because he has not seen the light. ... I agree with the "Allegory of the cave" because one who is enlightened contains the knowledge that he could not while in the darkness. ... Referring to Plato's observation I bel...
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. ...
"The Allegory of the Cave" was written by Plato, one of the greatest philosophers in history. ... To make understand an easy realism, Plato showed all of the elements and people as symbols or metaphors to indicate a difference among educated and uneducated persons. In this story, there were some prisoners in an underground cave since their childhood. ... After that, he was forced to go out of the cave to see the sun. ... In "The Allegory of the Cave" Plato demonstrated his views of education as, "so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole ...
Truth In "The Allegory of the Cave," Plato uses the metaphor of an obscure cave to represent both knowledge and truth. ... They can only see before them, visualizing mere shadows on the wall of the cave, and knowing these images as their only truth. ... Upon returning to the darkened cave, he is seen by his former peers as a man who lost his sight, but now, he can see all the more clearly. ... Plato's allegory is based upon the concept of truth. ... Humans learn by experience, and only by realizing and then rejecting darkness, will prisoners see the light at the end of the cave. ...
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? ... When Plato's man was bound in chains, did he not have his reality? For him, the cave and shadows were his reality. ... If you don't this then you"ll be in the cave forever. ...
