The Allegory of the Cave Plato was the son of a noble and wealthy family, and had planned to have a career in politics when the trial and eventual execution of Socrates altered the course of his life. ... In this allegory of the cave Plato introduced us to the teaching that there is a truth beyond sense. ... Plato's allegory starts with a depiction of the pathetic condition of most of mankind. ... This is not the case; the allegory states that no such simple deliverance from illusion is possible (Kreis). ... The allegory then goes on to explain that the cave is the world of sight, th...

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The Allegory of the cave , like most things in philosophy, can be deciphered 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 of the Cave is a direct comparison to that of the process of dying and accention into heaven. The Allegory of the Cave is and illustration of the way humans look at the Earth and what we fell is reality. ...

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What the Allegory Implies for People Living in a World of Senses The Allegory of the Cave implies that if we rely on our perceptions to know the truth about existence then we will know very little about it. ... The shadows on the cave wall change continually and are of little worth, but the reality out side the cave never changes and that makes it important. Stepping out of the cave and seeing the sun represents enlightenment; the sun sheds like on the previous beliefs of the cave dwellers and opens them to a better understanding. ... Essentially Plato's allegory implies that we are a...

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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. ... At the same time, this allegory proves that knowledge is useless unless one is in the light. ...

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In Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave," he suggests that there are two different forms of vision, a "mind's eye" and a "bodily eye." ... While inside the cave, the prisoners function only with this eye. ... An allegory is "a story in which the characters and situations actually represent people and situations in another context" (276). ... In the allegory, this enlightenment is portrayed as a prisoner being released from the dark cave. The cave in this allegory symbolizes the dark imperfect world filled with shadows and distorted images that only the "bodily eye" is able to see....

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His "Allegory of the Cave" gives us great insight into the human condition. Allegory is a type of symbolism in which there is a direct one-to-one relationship between a character, object, or place and an idea or concept. ... One is teaching the other about the human condition through allegory and symbolism. ... The prisoners in the cave represent humanity. ... The only noises the prisoners hear are echoed off the cave wall. ...

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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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Allegory of the Cave The Truth and Light Allegories are small stories that deal with big ideas and hopefully help people reach the state of being enlightened. In Allegory of the Cave, by Plato, a person was enlightened. ... In Allegory of the Cave, there are many people living in the cave. ... The lesson in the Allegory of the Cave was you have to be enlightened to understand new concepts. ... It is much like the prisoner being forced out of the cave. ...

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Allegory of the Cave comes from book VII of Plato's best know n work: The Republic. ... The Allegory is still useful and relevant in today's world. ... Plato's Allegory of the Cave begins by describing how people are chained in a cave. ... In today's world, "Allegory of the Cave" still speaks to us in politics. ... All of the analogies that Plato makes in Allegory of the Cave are still true in today's world. ...

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Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and the film, "The Truman Show," have many similarities in which both encourage its audience to question what they perceive as reality. Plato's Allegory of the Cave is used to illustrate the physical world as an illusion, the cave signifying the world, the prisoners representing the people who inhabit the world and the shadows representative of everything that the people see such as objects and their surrounding as real. ... The Truman show resembles Plato's allegory of the cave as initially Truman is trapped into his own cave and his journey into...

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Also, the "Allegory of the Cave," is a metaphor meant to illustrate the effects of education and knowledge on the human soul and how people cannot and do not want to believe the realty. ... This "Allegory of the Cave" is a dialogue or conversation between Socrates and Glaucan, where Socrates compares the issues appearance vs. reality and education vs. ignorance. The "Allegory of the Cave" Socrates sums up his ideas and puts it into a conversational from between him and his student Glucan. ... The "Allegory of the Cave," is accurate representation of the ...

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The Truman Show and the Allegory of the Cave It is clear that the producer of The Truman Show has read Plato. ... The film is remarkably similar to Plato's allegory of the cave. In his allegory of the cave, Plato asks the reader to imagine humans living in a dark cave, chained so they can only look directly at the cave wall. ... He is struggling to get up and out of the cave. ... It is also in many ways a modern version of Plato's allegory of the cave....

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Plato's Cave Allegory The Cave allegory Plato spoke about was not attributed to a "cave" in the literal sense, but rather to an inner "cave" that resides in all individuals. ... All of the people within the cave, both those facing the wall and those on the elevated wall have one thing in common; they are all "prisoners". ... When the prisoner is returned to the cave he is seen as an outcast and is ridiculed for not having the capability to participate in the "games" that he once enjoyed. ... The cave symbolizes those who are afraid of the unfamiliar and see only one way of doing...

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The allegory was as true as the facts of surface appearances. ... Thus, it could be said that an allegory is an extended metaphor. One of the best known examples is Platos Allegory of the Cave, included in his acclaimed book The Republic. ... The allegory allows the author to establish an analogy, a comparison between two highly divergent subjects and remote from each other: the problem of knowledge and the lives of the dwellers of a cave. ... The first parallelism between the movie and Platos allegory can be seen in this convergence. ...

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Plato start the allegory of the cage as people being chained, they are watching what they think is reality in the wall, the shadow of true reality made by a fire they are with. ... William James view on a universe with possibilities in a way supports the cave allegory. ... I can understand Plato's view of the cave and how those people are in denial when they don't accept the true. ... The man who were taking out of the cave and saw the sun and what reality was, if when taking back to the cave, and he still didn't believe then that would be denial. ... Looking at the allegory of ...

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The Allegory of the Cave was a very enjoyable piece. ... The prisoners are basically trapped in a false reality, where all they know are the shadows that they see in the cave. ... There is also another representation in the story, if you think about it, it is easy to see that this is a battle of light vs. dark, because the darkness comes from the caves, and the darkness of the cave represents the deception and lies, and the light is the sunlight that the prisoner eventually sees, and this light represents the prisoner finally seeing the truth and becoming enlightened. ... I think that the main...

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In The Republic by Plato, we find the Allegory of the Cave, a symbolic story, told by Socrates, which asserts that all humanity starts out in ignorance and is eventually pushed to seek further knowledge. ... In the allegory, Socrates describes a dark cave deep in the Earth. In the back of the cave there is a fire, the only light and the only way to see in the cave. ... Suddenly a man free of chains appears in the Cave. ... They have somehow worked their way down to this stratified Cave to teach what they feel is best and true for the Cave dwellers. ...

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Plato's Republic: The Cave image In quite possibly Plato's most famous dialogue, The Allegory of the Cave is discussed. ... At some point, a prisoner is set free and is forced to see the situation inside the cave. ... The individual then makes the painful readjustment back into the darkness of the cave to free the prisoners. ... Plato's Allegory of the Cave is a direct representation of the human condition, the circumstances we as humans presently encounter, circumstances such as conceptual frameworks, or basic beliefs, and our typical behaviors in society. The allegory m...

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In the Allegory of the Cave Plato argues for enlightenment, but he also presents why choosing enlightenment can be dangerous and painful. ... What sets this man apart from the normal man, why does he not run back into the cave, to the safety and security of his happy cave life? ... Once he is back in the cave he is expected to free his cave dwelling companions, and show them the light (pun intended). ... (The Matrix) The man takes the red pill, and leaves the cave. ... The people in the cave did not want to leave the cave, and go to this new real world. ...

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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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"Allegory of the Cave" The prison dwelling and the visible realm are compared to one another in the first sentence of the text. ... The fire inside the cave helps guide the prisoners to use their senses. ... This is found outside of the cave, the only home he has ever known. ... As the prisoner steps out of the fire-filled cave, his journey heightens towards the outside world, which seems quite abstract, for he has never encountered such objects before. ...

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The Truman Show, the Allegory of the Cave, and the process of birth all show the concept and process of revelation. ... The Truman Show shows revelation in the world along with the Allegory of the Cave and the process of birth. ... The Allegory of the Cave by Plato also has to do with revelation. ... He saw the exit of the cave and left by running out into the world. ... In the Truman show, the Allegory of the Cave and the process of birth, revelation is shown as a learning process. ...

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