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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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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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'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). ... (p.229, the Allegory of the Cave). ... Both The Gospel of Mary and...

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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 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 says that it is painful to break the chains, and in most cases death is not pleasant. ... He expresses this theory with three approaches: his allegory of The Cave, his metaphor of the Divided Line and the Simile of the Sun. ...

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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. ... 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. The allegory metaphorically describes several key elements of the human condition of containing pertinent ideas about false perceptions being perceived instead of the intuition of reason. ......

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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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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. ... Like the prisoner in "The Allegory of the Cave" Sammy has seen the light; while painful he knows nothing will ever be the same. ... Like in Plato's allegory, "... ... Plato: "The Allegory of the Cave, from The Republic." ...

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In his theory Allegory of the cave he explains the reason why society needs to be educated, sees the good in people and says the "bad" actions one commits are not necessarily bad but pure ignorance to which can be changed by education. ... " 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...

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Similarly, in the essay "Allegory of the Cave," Greek philosopher Plato's thoughts correlate with Thoreau but in a more pessimistic way as he portrays humans are deprived of their freedom to turn their heads and what they are seeing is limited to what is in front of them and will continue to live this way as long as humans don't see the reality of things. ... In the dialogue of "Allegory of the Cave", Plato asks his readers to imagine a group of prisoners, who were kept in a cave down the Earth. These cavemen have been in the cave ever since birth; they are chaine...

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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. ...

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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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"In a sense, no doubt, the separation of the "true" from the "false," the "real" from the "illusory," has 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 th...

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The allegory of the cave illustrates the difference between the materialistic world and the intelligible world. ... Another aspect of the cave is the idea that if man escapes the cave and sees the light he is no longer able to see the shadows that he used to see. ... The cave also symbolizes the idea that memorization of the shadows produces intelligence. ...

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