... the Cave comes from book VII of Plato's best know n work: The Republic. In "The Republic," Plato speaks of good and justice and the story of the cave relates directly to that. The Allegory is still useful and relevant in today's world. It speaks of the influence that the media and government have over the people. Although the media greatly influences decision making it is truly the up to person to decide if the ... media is correct. The Allegory ... them. He is made to go back into the cave and when he tells the other prisoners about the outside world most think he is crazy. The other p...

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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. It basically says that people are chained to the wall of a cave and they have nothing to look at but shadows on the wall that are provided by another. This is all that they know and have never been out of the cave. The main point ... expresses this theory with three approaches: his allegory of The Cave, his metaphor of the Divided Line and the Simile of the Sun. Each theory is connected; one could not be without the other. The shadows are produced ...

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... other great Sci-Fi films of the late 20th century. Only after viewing this film several times and focusing solely on the text and not the graphics, the viewer may recognize the depth of the script and the many philosophical concepts throughout. Plato's work "The Allegory of the Cave", a selection from his text "The Republic", is the strongest example of the use of philosophical views in The Matrix. Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" is a story used to ... describe the control that society and the government has over ordinary citizens. He begins ... ...

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... other great Sci-Fi films of the late 20th century. Only after viewing this film several times and focusing solely on the text and not the graphics, the viewer may recognize the depth of the script and the many philosophical concepts throughout. Plato's work "The Allegory of the Cave", a selection from his text "The Republic", is the strongest example of the use of philosophical views in The Matrix. Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" is a story used to ... describe the control that society and the government has over ordinary citizens. He begins ... ...

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... understood his philosophical system and political thought. Unlike Socrates, Plato was both a writer and a teacher. His writings appear in the form of dialogues, with Socrates as the main speaker. One of Plato's most publicly known myths is the parable with which the Seventh Book of the Republic opens. In this allegory of the cave Plato introduced us to the teaching that there is a truth beyond sense. Even to ... realize the distinction between the standpoint of the true seer and the delusions of most men is an ... becoming into that of being, and can learn by different degrees to endur...

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... 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 in ignorance when they knew nothing of the ... 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 and ...

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... laying open on top. I took a closer look and the only words the book contained were "Plato 328 B.C." I shut the book and was about to leave when I heard a whirling of hidden machines and a bright flash of light, suddenly I was in a sunny grove wearing a toga, sitting next to me was a man writing on a scroll labeled "The Republic." I realized must be Plato. Plato: Ah hello my young friend, you must be ... one Professor Einstein's students. How can I help you? Jacob: I really have to get home if the professor realized I used his machine he"ll be furious. Plato: Really? You don't want to a...

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... , a dramatic myth told in the seventh book of the Republic, is a prime example of an author who attempts to answer the question why it is important to "philosophize". Like some of his predecessors, Plato argued that the ascent to wisdom is a difficult journey, however, he believed that it was possible. The Cave Allegory is used to answer the question, "What is Plato's view of humanity and how can we ... obtain real knowledge?" At the beginning ... symbolic for humans moving away from merely their sense and moving onto reason and mind. As soon as our wondering prisoner steps into the sun...

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... realize that everything they do has been fake. Many will turn back now, out of the fear of the unknown, but some may decide to venture out and leave the cave. (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. Plato sees this as a person Neumann 2 becoming aware of a truer and more real world that exists ... . (Halsted notes October 6, 2003) The fourth level is Observation, this is when the prisoners are continuing to realize that knowledge outside ... ...

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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. It illustrates prisoners chained underground all their lives in semi-darkness and unaware of the sunlit world above to discuss the difference between reality itself and our faulty perception of reality. Socrates likens a true understanding of "reality" to the experience of emerging from darkness into the light ... This reality is marked by reason. The individual then makes the painful readjustment back into the darkness of the cave to free the prisoners. However, because he ...

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... experience and now knows not to touch the stove. That is the type of knowledge that will be discussed in this paper. Book VII of The Republic provides great insight into the way Plato thought of knowledge. The shadowy environment of the cave symbolizes for Plato the physical world of appearances. Escaping into the sun-filled setting outside the cave symbolizes the transition to the real world, the world of full and perfect being, which ... is the proper object of knowledge. Although Plato would not agree with this statement, opinion plays ... ...

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Plato's analysis of the truth through "The Parable of the Cave" is an effective, valid tool to help us analyze our own life and ultimately find the truth. He did this by first analyzing his own life and the fetters and bearers who used shadows to keep him from reaching the roadway to wisdom. It has proved to be an effective assessment not only when he was alive but even up until today. The parable symbolizes man's struggle to reach understanding and enlightenment and is a universal and everlasting concept. Plato used the bearers in his parable to symbolize people who control what we see and do...

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... because it was created by one man's vision for a television show? The Truman Show can be best based from Plato's most famous dialogue, The Republic. Contained in this dialogue are numerous books that describe many of Plato's philosophies, but most specifically the Allegory of the Cave. He describes the struggle for knowledge and the form of the Good. Plato illustrates in his dialogue human beings in an underground den, with an ... opening at one end that leads to the outside light. Each one of the human beings has ... ...

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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 an extended metaphor full of symbolism. All of the objects in the story mean something, and can be applied to the world we live in. Socrates ... shadows. They have not ever seen themselves or their neighbors. Behind them is a fire and in front of the fire is a roadway, on which people pass by. The prisoners can only hear the voices be...

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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 an extended metaphor full of symbolism. All of the objects in the story mean something, and can be applied to the world we live in. Socrates ... shadows. They have not ever seen themselves or their neighbors. Behind them is a fire and in front of the fire is a roadway, on which people pass by. The prisoners can only hear the voices b...

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... analogy is regarded as a map, then indeed his allegory of the cave could be described as the actual journey. When Plato wrote "The Republic" he became Socrates most enlightened pupil. As they both dreamed of an almost utopian existence for all societies or "states". They both believed that the first key to having an ideal state or communatable existence is enlightenment of ones ... state of being. The highest state being the "Chief Good". If the most important step ... it takes one free spirit to enlighten the rest of us. In seeing what is real, one then gains knowledge. Of course gaini...

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... was another world out there, besides the shadows reflected on the wall. Neo is a computer hacker in the real world. He is taken out of this real world and into the Matrix, where he learns the Matrix is a computer simulation. Neo discovers that he has been a prisoner, stuck in a container, his whole life. Neo resembles the ex-prisoner in Plato's Republic because for one they are both prisoners ... their whole life. They both also walked outside of the cave. "The Allegory of the Cave illustrates the road we must take from shadowy ... images to the true Ideas behind all natural phenomena-...

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... them. This is what the study of philosophy is all about: the rational attempt to formulate, understand and answer fundamental questions. Concerning the debate between appearance and reality, we can look to a celebrated philosopher, who lived in the 4th century B.C.E, but is still read and studied today, this person being Plato. In book VII of The Republic, Plato puts into words the life of another great philosopher ... of the time, Socrates. Socrates was a man interested in what people thought and why they came to certain conclusions. He roamed about Athens ... impact that is still felt...

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... not sheep and an amusing new admiration for them came over him. Especially for the one he named in his mind "Queenie". In Plato's allegory "And suppose once more, that he is reluctantly dragged up a steep and rugged ascent, and held fast until he 's forced into the presence of the sun himself, is he not likely to be pained and irritated? When he approaches ... allows him to look at those around him in a differently. At the end of the story he makes a heroic gesture in what looks like an attempt to impress the girls. However, even after the girls' leave, he maintains his stand and steps ...

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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 return and help others find the world that existed on the surface. However, I must agree with Glaucon ... the discovery of the truth. 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 t...

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