Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
What I intend to talk about is Allegory of the cave, and what is the meaning around the theory. Human perception, to get real or true knowledge, we must achieve this through philosophical reasoning. Because knowledge gained by your senses is not real knowledge. And in the allegory of the cave, what’s the difference between sensory knowledge and finding the truth philosophically.
And we start with the prisoners that are bounded in the cave. They cannot move, look to the left are to the right, only to a stone wall in front of them to look at. A fire behind their backs that cast shadows from walk-way in which people are carrying different objects on their heads. To pass the time they come up with a guessing game the prisoners try guessing what these objects are. Whichever prisoner guessed the best would win the game. He then would get win the approval from the other prisoners and would receive the title as the master of the game.
Then one day one of these prisoners escapes into the world. He finds the world alien to him at first. But as he gets used to his surroundings and goes on the path to get truth and meaning in the world. He then returns to the cave and tells the others about his experiences; they did not believe him and threatens to kill him if he sets them free. The shadows are for people that believe in empirical evidence, what you see is the truth. The master is the idea if we believe in your master (kings, owners, bosses etc….). that they have knowledge in the empirical …show more content…
many different types, but the word pen which means the common pen or eternal pen which also is idea of a pen or the form of a pen which no pen can be better and any pen in the world can't match because it's just a copy or a reflection of the one pen which the main form of a pen, which can only can exist in our mind as this is a pen made by the
What I intend to talk about is Allegory of the cave, and what is the meaning around the theory. Human perception, to get real or true knowledge, we must achieve this through philosophical reasoning. Because knowledge gained by your senses is not real knowledge. And in the allegory of the cave, what’s the difference between sensory knowledge and finding the truth philosophically.
And we start with the prisoners that are bounded in the cave. They cannot move, look to the left are to the right, only to a stone wall in front of them to look at. A fire behind their backs that cast shadows from walk-way in which people are carrying different objects on their heads. To pass the time they come up with a guessing game the prisoners try guessing what these objects are. Whichever prisoner guessed the best would win the game. He then would get win the approval from the other prisoners and would receive the title as the master of the game.
Then one day one of these prisoners escapes into the world. He finds the world alien to him at first. But as he gets used to his surroundings and goes on the path to get truth and meaning in the world. He then returns to the cave and tells the others about his experiences; they did not believe him and threatens to kill him if he sets them free. The shadows are for people that believe in empirical evidence, what you see is the truth. The master is the idea if we believe in your master (kings, owners, bosses etc….). that they have knowledge in the empirical …show more content…
many different types, but the word pen which means the common pen or eternal pen which also is idea of a pen or the form of a pen which no pen can be better and any pen in the world can't match because it's just a copy or a reflection of the one pen which the main form of a pen, which can only can exist in our mind as this is a pen made by the