Allegory of the Cave Essay

Plato’s Allegory of the cave represents the process of education and learning in that the cave is childhood ignorance and time spent in the education system, while the outside world is the rest of life, in which one must learn to understand the world independently through experience. During childhood, we are taught a specific story by our parents and teachers, learning only what they display on the wall. Once we are freed from this state, we can learn on our own, day by day, exploring a whole…

before. We can make a relationship with Plato’s “allegory of the cave”. In “Allegory of the Cave” which was written by Plato in his work “The Republic” Plato speaks of this rejection of broadening once horizon. Plato portrays “some people lived chained in the cave from their childhood by facing the wall, and they forced to see the projection on the wall which are shadows of statue and figures by the fire. And let one prisoner come out of the cave, he see the fire and statue. However, the…

Imagine finding out the way you perceive the world is totally wrong, the grass isn’t green and the sky isn’t blue. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Plato believes that knowledge of the world we live in, which is gained by our senses is false, but to find the truest knowledge of the world we must think how a philosopher would think. In comparison, Mike Fishbein, writer of “Cognitive Dissonance: What Happens When Reality Trumps Perception” informs readers about an effect called cognitive…

Plato's story “Allegory of the Cave” suggests how modern shadows distort people's perspectives. This essay will compare modern day “shadows” to those in the “Allegory of the Cave”. Some comparisons may be, TV commercials, gossip, governments, etc.. to The Cave. One modern day shadow is television commercials. TV commercials are “shadows” because they may say that their product is great and works very well, but it might turn out to be false and their products are terrible and do not work very…

“Allegory of the Cave” by Plato is a story that contrasts the differences between what is genuine and what is seen. It starts off with a long and dark cave, in the cave there are prisoners who, since birth, are tied around the neck and legs, inside a dark cave. The prisoners also have a limited field of vision, because of their ties they should always look forward. There is a light that illuminates their den, emanating a fiery fire behind them, a considerable and elevated distance. For their…

Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" is concerned about on how humans perceive things or the truth in particular. It shows how we gain knowledge. Plato claims that truth from what we see and hear are not real knowledge, and that there is another way of finding the truth which is philosophical. The allegory shows how the cave, shadows, game, escape and return of the prisoner symbolized different things a person would know if he/she would even try to look at things differently. The allegory started with…

For example the chains in the Allegory of the Cave represent the ignorance of the people in the cave. The cave itself was a symbol for the man’s home and for his ignorance. The man in cave was chained leaving him ignorant of how the real world was. The story 1984 is similar to Allegory of the Cave. The people in Oceania were being brainwashing leaving people ignorant. They didn’t how knowledge of what was really going on. The people in Oceania and the man in the cave were left not understanding…

The Matrix, released in 1999, has various connections to theories of metaphysics such as belief systems and philosophical views. The Allegory of the Cave and Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs will be covered on how they connect to the film. Plato’s story showing the effect of education and the lack of it on our nature and Maslow’s theory of our needs we need as we progress from one need to another until we feel fulfilled. In Plato's story there are people that have never seen daylight before and…

Biased Life “The Allegory of the cave” written by Plato many years ago still has tons of principles that are used to this day and will still apply in all the years to come. One of the principles that I have noticed that relates to today is how it relates to politics. Like how they only see one way perspectives. The government is filled with politicians and all of them are biased and some even corrupt. Politicians compare to the chained prisoners in Plato's “Allegory of the Cave” in the sense…

Plato’s story The Allegory Of The Cave suggests, that there are many shackles holding back the human mind. For examples, fear, money, weakness and failure. “And when he got into the sunlight, wouldn’t his eyes be filled with the glare, and wouldn’t he thus be unable to see any of the things that are now revealed to him as the unhidden?” Plato suggests fear in this quote. Even though his eyes would be filled with darkness he would not be able to finally see the chances that have always been…