Prisoner Ball

human awareness. In the short story a group of prisoners have been confined in a cavern ever since birth with no knowledge of the outside world. They are chained facing a wall unable to turn their heads. While a fire behind them gives off a faint light. Sometimes people pass by carrying figures of animals and other objects that cast shadows on the wall. The prisoners believe that the shadows are real and they begin to classify them. Suddenly one prisoner is unchained and brought outside for the…

seeing these images and shadows in front of them, but they are not aware that the real images are behind them. Plato had the idea, what if one of these prisoners were freed and saw the light, what would happen then? The freed person would be blinded to the light and no longer believe that the shadows they once were seeing were real. The prisoners don’t…

big question, “What is knowledge?” Plato’s way of demonstrating knowledge is his most famous examples of the Allegory of the Cave and The Divided Line, which uses the idea of sense perception. Socrates/Plato set the scenario in which there are prisoners who've been kept since childhood in a cave. Being chained, immobile, and facing a wall, there is a raised walkway and behind it there was a lit fire. A person of the walkway had objects that could be identified if seen, even in a shadow…

At the beginning he described the perspective of the prisoners and how we, in a way, are those prisoners. He also describes the environment of the prisoners; he stated that the prisoners are chained inside a cave. Here the “cave” symbolizes how we all live in a world that we consider reality. Ever since we are able to comprehend the world around us, we hold some perspective of that reality that may be false. Once the prisoner was freed and was allowed to look at the light behind him, Socrates…

The darkness represents the lack of intellect within the cave which consequently affects the prisoners’ sense of argument. Therefore, the perspectives of the prisoners are modified to the liking of the cave and the darkness suppresses the doubts within the minds’ of the individuals. Comparatively, as a child born into a strict, traditional family, my cave and the darkness were the…

which was fundamentally a Socratic dialogue analyzing what it means to be a just man. The allegory of the cave was a section of this book in which Plato described a cave full of prisoners that were chained to a wall and were only able to see the shadows and projections on the wall of the cave from a nearby fire. One day a prisoner was freed. When he first left the cave he was blinded by the sun for a moment until his eyes adjusted. Soon he discovered that what he thought was real in the shadows…

Psychological Identification and Understanding of Human Cooperation Using a variety of studies, research strategies, and available data collected from different sources to define along with understand the complexity of human cooperation. Pointing out the problems in human cooperation; individuals deciding to work alone rather than in a group. Determining what factors causes dilemmas in human cooperation or in some instances leading to competition. Comparing and/or contrasting already existing…

Change is an adjustment and if you do not change you will be left behind. In the story, it gives the setting, then we get to read how the prisoners view the world and then how one of the prisoners was set free and this shows how he will begin learning new things from what he originally knew before. In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” it shows that people should accept change because they never know what can happen once they know the whole truth and through the use of point of view, imagery, and…

I just went with it now. If I had to kill someone, I did it. I questioned my own existince so many times I couldn't keep track. The Nazis were so harsh, it was unbelievable, well, for normal people it was unbelievable, for me, it was normal. The Prisoner numbers had gone down so much. There were about 4,000 Jews left, the numbers had dropped so much. At Treblinka, it was known that not many people survive at all. If anyone survived, it was about 500 people that would survive. We were tortured…

deep thought and analysis. In this paper, I will discuss the influence of Plato and Aristotle seen in our culture today. The Myth of the Cave, (Palmer 2013), depicts a story about prisoners chained up in a cave. Their vision was limited to shadows on the wall and gave them a false sense of reality. One prisoner was unchained and forced to look at the real source of the shadows. The pain caused by the light of the fire made him prefer the deception, but he was forced out of the cave into…