... 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. In here, Plato stresses his belief in the search for truth, and reality, instead of choosing ignorance. Characters of the cave, who are the prisoners, have lived their life ... thought him crazy. This refusal of accepting new ideas is primitive thinking and if it continues, one would never achieve "nirvana", in a sense higher being. Plato has the released prison reach to a level of "higher being" when he is able to reason clearly ...

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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. Socrates believed that those who through their inclination to learn the truth leave the Cave, are dutifully to ... people walking across with objects to cast shadows with the fire. These objects are cutouts, consisting of the shapes of animals and plants. Plato is describing the Cave as the world as we are taught children. The cutouts represent our religious morals and the morals taught by ou...

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... division in terms of things that exist and the degree of truth that is possible at each level. Use this to explain the Allegory of the Cave. Plato's Divided Line represents the visible (images and shadows) vs. the intelligible (searching for answers). These theme of the tangible truth vs. perceived truth ... can be found throughout the Allegory of the Cave. THOUGHT - Too many people, in today's society live their lives with blinders on and look at the world around them as if they were chained ... them "of their ignorance" (515d) in order for us to find a solution to bettering our world. ...

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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. It is ... in. Socrates starts his story by describing an image which is pointedly "strange", according to Glaucon. He tells about prisoners who have been chained since childhood in a cave. The prisoners have always faced one wall and have only seen shadows. They have not ever seen themselves or their neighbors. Behind them is a fire and in f...

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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. It is ... in. Socrates starts his story by describing an image which is pointedly "strange", according to Glaucon. He tells about prisoners who have been chained since childhood in a cave. The prisoners have always faced one wall and have only seen shadows. They have not ever seen themselves or their neighbors. Behind them is a fire and in ...

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The Allegory of the Cave was a very enjoyable piece. I enjoyed it because of how it can be connected to life today, even though Plato wrote this piece THOUSANDS of years ago. To me there are so many interpretations that can be made of this story. After reading some information online, and discussing the reading ... finding the truth (just like in the movie The Matrix). The prisoners are basically trapped in a false reality, where all they know are the shadows that they see in the cave. When the prisoner finally breaks free, he starts his journey to finding the truth, and in this case, he fin...

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... references to philosophy portrayed in the movie. 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. According to Descartes" Meditation on methodic doubt he tries to achieve absolute certainty about the nature of everything. In order to acquire absolute certainty ... not showing them what the truth is by deceiving them in everything that they do. Plato's allegory of the cave can also be seen in the Matrix. Plato's theory is that we are like prisoners tied up...

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... been the task of thought at all times." (Willey 22). We are helped in this task to form a definition of reality by the philosophers Plato and Heracleitus, who each have contradicting views on the subject. Their views revolve around the realness of ideas and forms in relation to the realness of ... 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. Plato's theories on reality versus illusion fall into line with the unifying concept of ide...

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... 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? Reality is trying to achieve both truth and understanding. There is no such thing as 'Reality", until you truly be aware of and live life. Reality is a perspective accepted ... by a person as being true because of what they have been seen. When Plato's man was bound in chains, did he not have his reality? For him, the cave and shadows were his reality. He broke free of the chains, which resulted in a shift in point of view...

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