Allegory of the Cave

Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” refers to the idea of the shadows in the cave being used to subjugate prisoners in a cave. They are being entranced and trapped by their own shadows, and believe that the shadows are the thing that they represent: for example, the shadow of a dog is a dog. The image of the prisoners chained to the wall, forced to watch something they think is the outside but that they create, has persisted in society for millennia, and for good reason. The allegory strikes at the…

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: Analysis Plato’s Allegory of the Cave starts off as a conversation between Plato’s brother Glaucon and Plato’s mentor, Socrates. In the story, Socrates describes a group of people who have lived their lives chained in a cave, facing a blank wall. The group of people watch shadows that are projected onto the wall. Shadows that consist of objects passing through between the prisoners and a fire. Every day the people in the cave watch these shadows and have given…

An allegory can use a situation or event in order to reveal a deeper meaning or lesson. Allegories can act as analogies that point out logical inconsistencies and cause one to reflect and even question their own way of life. In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” Plato intends to point out the prison-like obedience that humans who are “in the cave” have to their lifestyle, and the difficult choice of giving up this lifestyle in search of something more. This allegory displays the confining nature of…

Like Buddha’s teachings, he explains that more “wisdom and virtue will naturally come” to someone, but we must not depend on wisdom to come by itself but first control our mind and be discipline. Similarly, the short story “ The Allegory in the…

Caves are dark and scary. But sometimes, you can learn in a cave. The cave could have been a volcanic tunnel thousands of years ago, or filled with crystals, or even infested with glow worms that light the cave. One of the best caves to learn about isn’t a cave at all; it’s an allegory. The masterpiece of “Allegory of the Cave” by the Greek philosopher Plato uses the fictional scenario of prisoners in a cave who ascend to “the light.” The cave represents the uneducated, one-sided view some…

Tobias Buehner Professor Douglass TA Gianna Englert Philosophy 099 October 5, 2014 Analyzing Plato’s Allegory of the Cave Over time, history has produced extraordinary leaders. People such as George Washington, Gandhi, and Alexander the Great have inspired the minds of many and created magnificent societies for their people. These men not only successfully lead their people, they also fostered them and helped them grow and develop. They are considered to be some of the greatest leaders of all…

In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” demonstrates a different approach on illustrating the way society tends to view reality. In this section Plato identifies ideas of change that could have been implemented, but instead were rejected. Excerpts in Plato’s writing show how the public associates fear with change and also the unknown. Plato’s allegory explains his own theories more by connecting shadows of a cave to a boundary that humans have put up to ignore reality. With these notions Plato still…

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 Allegory of the Cave is a dialogue between Glaucon and his mentor Socrates. Socrates presents a situation in which several men are born chained to a cave wall with absolutely no mobility in their appendages or their heads for their entire lives. Behind and above them is a fire that casts shadows onto the cave wall that the prisoners are facing. Between the prisoners and the fire is a raised walkway that allows unnamed people to walk through, although the walkway has a wall to obscure the…

of the smartest and most enlightened men to live. He is remarkable because he lived in a time where most people were uneducated. Just as in “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato and The Matrix by the Wachowski sisters, there is a prisoner in both who do not understand that they are prisoners, then freed to be enlightened.…