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    The Allegory of The Cave is a story about a man who had spent his life chained to a cave only seeing shadows from a fire behind him. One day, he is released and goes to see the wonders of his new world. Eventually, he returns back to the cave to tell the other prisoners about the wonders of the world however they did not recognize his distorted voice or his shadowed body. It is from there that Plato begins his commentary of what the allegory was trying to say. Many topics were discussed in…

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    Summary of “The Allegory of the Cave” “The Allegory of the Cave,” is a small excerpt from The Republic, Book 7, written by a famous philosopher named Plato. In this excerpt, he vividly describes a mystical process that prepares and awakens man to his true destiny. Prisoners are captivated in the cave in their entire life where they see nothing but an illusion, only a shadow of the object. By chance, one of the prisoners is forced to go outside of the cave, where he discovers the nature of…

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    We are all prisoners trapped within our minds and strained by the way we think. This objective point of view of the nature and value of truth is directly represented in Plato’s Allegory of the cave. The Allegory, the ‘platonic picture’, demonstrates the actuality in the journey of widening one’s perspective of the world rather than being held captive to false reality. In contrast, the “Three Metamorphoses of the Spirit” by F. Nietzsche ultimately challenges the platonic picture by primarily…

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    Aristotle is Plato's Student who disagrees with everything that Plato had say. For Aristotle, he believes that you need to absorb to see what is good in life and how to make it a better place. Plato believes in the allegory of the cave. Which basically says that all people are tied in the cave and very few have a chance to go out. He also believes that knowledge is good. When they go out they see the light they can either close their eyes and be blind for forever or they could…

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    In Plato’s Allegory of the Caves, a group of prisoners have been confined in a cavern 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. The prisoners see shadows projected on the wall from objects or people passing in front of the fire behind them and give names to the shadows, believing they’re perceiving actual entities. One day a prisoner is freed and is brought outside for the…

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    In “The Allegory of the Cave,” an important distinction is made between two types of people, people who are blissfully ignorant and people who are painfully enlightened. The people who are blissfully ignorant choose to see things as they think they are; they mistake appearance for reality. These are the people who remain shackled to the wall, are unable to move their legs or heads, and, “see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another” (Plato 587). These people remain in the darkness,…

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    his student, Aristotle, Plato laid the foundation for Western Philosophy as we know it. “The Allegory of the Cave”, from The Republic, is a dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon. The allegory serves as a prime example of an enduring thought experiment demonstrating a facet of human nature relevant to a number of fields in humanities today. Through the usage of various symbolisms, The “The Allegory of the Cave” explains the underlying basis of the echo chamber effect and portrays the importance…

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    Most knowledge can lead to many advancements in our world, but the most important knowledge is the information that improves the quality of life. The comprehension of religion can set the standard of health, comfort, and happiness. In The Allegory of the Cave, Plato explains to us how to access knowledge and how it can benefit our lives. Something like religion could improve the quality of life. Religion is a cultural system that follows certain behaviors and practices some of which contain a…

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    In The Allegory of the Cave by Plato this piece analyzes how far, or rather not far mankind has come in facing the true nature of the world and it’s reality. Plato does so by comparing mankind to prisoner held captive in a cave. The men are confined and cannot move about and can only see what is in front of them, day after day the men watch images of shadows on the wall in front of them illuminated by fire. Also within the cave the men are exposed to echoes and believe the noises come from the…

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    the “Allegory of the cave”, living in the cave. (‘The Allegory of The Cave’ by Plato: Summary and Meaning, 2012) The knowledge…

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