... created by man in order to gain profit. One can relate this to the cave allegory in the sense that one must abandon all preconceived notions, even those of faith, in the search for truth outside the cave. A third and final passage from Nietzsche that can bear direct relevance to the cave allegory is: "Even the bravest of us rarely has courage for what he knows - Despite how brave and how ... much we would like to escape from the cave, we rarely have the nerve to actually stand up for the reality that is represented by the outside of the cave. Essentially, ... even when the truth is cap...

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... the strongest people rise up to the top. The other noble lie that is told is the procreation lottery. The lottery is constituted as population control in order to produce the correct amount of each class of citizen and only the best possible offspring. In order to better understand why these lies are necessary Socrates relates the story of the Allegory of the Cave to illustrate the necessity of the lies. In the Allegory of the Cave, people are chained together in a cave facing the walls. The ... only things they ever see are shadows, which unbeknownst to them, are controlled by other pe...

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... the Divided Line as a backdrop, Socrates presents the Allegory of the Cave as a metaphor that presents a person's travels from ignorance to wisdom. It can be seen as the education process for the true philosophers. Socrates uses the image of the Divided Line as an itinerary for the journey out of the cave. The best way to understand the cave metaphor is to refer constantly to the Divided Line as a guide through the ... four steps from darkness to light. This is the ... would not be able to converse with another. He would be taken for a fool. The Allegory of the Cave is an education proc...

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... view will enrich our experience. The improvement of our lives is the ultimate goal of philisophical study (Russell). To reference Plato's allegory of the cave, the escapee has a much greater viewpoint than the slaves. This expanded view is a more accurate viewpoint and allows the escapee to better interpret the shadows of the cave (Schiller 200). Or to put it differently, "a soul attuned to the harmonies of the higher is the most capapable of dealing with the lower" (Schiller 200). So, while ... a large impact on our reality so it is extremely important to examine them, even though it c...

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... their proper places. These parts of the soul are supposed to be parallel to the perfect city-state. For example, the productive class corresponds with the appetitive aspect, the military would be the spirit, and the philosophers would correspond with the rational class. This ties back to the ideal society, which in turn ties into the definition of justice that may be found in this utopia. The cave allegory is an enduring image in philosophy ... . It makes an interesting point on the different levels of intelligence, in which Plato believes ... ...

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... stage, they are dealing with the Forms directly, seeing the true object in its due eternal essence (Price 61). When at this stage, the person has now gained the ability to be "moral", thus living the "good" life. This brings the ability to balance the soul's will, between rationality and appetite. This idea of morality, as well as the interconnectedness of everything, is described in the "Allegory of the Cave". There are three ways to ... go about knowing forms. The first is recollection, which is discovering forms through experiences ... ...

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... all about Socrates' trial and execution. Symposium is about the function and purpose of love. The Republic is about Plato's ideal form of a republic. A significant portion of Plato's writing is metaphorical, or hypothetical. The Allegory of the Cave, for example, is a metaphor for the common man in everyday life, and how the philosopher dares to think independently. Thusly, he considered the philosopher king the most fit to rule, which he reflects further on in ... The Republic. Plato's republic assigned individuals to careers by way of education. The first of the citizens who failed in...

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... position to teach the philosophy of justice to the generals. To do this, Socrates presents three allegories. The first allegory is the allegory of the soul, goodness and forms. The point of this allegory is to teach the Athenians that in order for the soul to experience justice, there needs to be a third party. The second allegory teaches that justice is in a class of intelligible values rather than in the class of visible values. The Cave allegory is the last parable Socrates uses ... . Everything that Socrates had taught up to this point was in preparation for the Cave allegory and ......

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... talking about when I mentioned true knowledge. We can have true knowledge about mathematics, because the rate never changes. Jacob: I've read your Allegory of the Cave. Can you explain it to me? Plato: I modeled the Allegory of the Cave after my teacher Socrates life, and his death. He like all of us was facing the wall of the cave and marveling at the shadows of our world. But he thought beyond our reality and freed himself from ... the chains. He went up to the real world and even though it was painful, uncovered the real world. He learned ... ...

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