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...

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Plato believes society faces an ignorance problem. ... " 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. ... What we make ourselves believe inside the cave makes us believe this is normal. ...

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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. ...

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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 Cave suggests to us that Plato saw most of humanity living in "the cave", in the dark, and that the vision of knowledge was salvation from darkness. ... Plato's two worlds: the dark, the cave, and the bright were his way of rejecting the Sophists, who found "true knowledge" impossible because of constant change. Plato believed there was a "true Idea of Justice". ... Imagining, here in Plato's world, is seen as "true reality...

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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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This is the basic premise for Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which prisoners sit in a cave, chained down, watching images cast on the wall in front of them. ... Accordingly, to break free, we must open our eyes and see the truth about the world around us according to Plato. The truth for Oedipus being that he is a prisoner of his own beliefs just as the men were prisoners of the cave. ... In "Allegory of the Cave" Plato alludes to a direct representation of the human condition of typical behaviors in society. ... In the context of "Allegory of the Cave," Oedipus can be compared to the...

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Thinking is understanding but not quite what Plato would dub perfect knowledge. ... According to Plato, reality does not change. ... Plato's basic theory is that an idea is more real than an instance of that idea. This theory is represented by the cave in Plato's Allegory of the Cave. The cave represents the world of appearances, of illusion, of ignorance, and of change. ...

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A&P: A Philosophical Comparison Sammy's story is a coming of age story, not unlike Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in a modern light. ... (Brians) It can be assumed Queenie is the one who has dragged Sammy out of his cave and he is irritated. ... But he chooses to face the music and go on, not step back into the cave by back stepping his decision to quit. ... Like in Plato's allegory, "... ... Plato: "The Allegory of the Cave, from The Republic." ...

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Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Gospel of Mary are both examples of people trying to impart their newfound knowledge onto others. ... In Plato's Allegory of the Cave we are presented with a story of a group of people who are kept imprisoned in a cave for their entire lives, "Here they have been since childhood, chained by the leg and also by the neck, so that they cannot move and can see only what is in front of them, because the chains will not let them turn their heads" (p.227, the Allegory of the Cave). ... In the story, one man escapes from the cave to find that everything...

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Stretching Our Horizons Comparing and contrasting Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" with Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" is a complex example of comparing bananas with tangerines. ... Plato was a student of Socrates and though the writing of "Allegory of the Cave" is all his own the basis for his ideas came from none other than his own teacher. The teacher you see is one half of the great element in Plato's epiphany. ... It is said that in this particular work, "Plato described symbolically the predicament in which mankind finds itself and proposes a way of salvation...

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I can most relate to Bacons Idol of the Cave. ... This cave is a reference to one's mind and the education they receive is based in their own wants. ... I have been interested in some other education and when I started learning about Bacon and Plato my "former fancies" distorted my image of what bacon was really trying to say. All of these Idols I have seen within my life but the cave is the one that sticks out the most. ... Just from writing this paper I have gained a since of knowledge and realize how big of a role the Idols of the Cave effect my own living style. ...

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In the story told by Plato "Allegory of the Cave" gives us an example of prisoners kept ignorant, and one prisoner that is exposed to the knowledge of the real world. ... Kapsi was pulled out of the cave and the sunlight hit him with the truth. ...

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