Caves

The Allegory of the Cave by Plato was written somewhere between 380 and 360B.C. in part VII of his work The Republic. It begins with the main character Socrates talking of a hypothetical cave in which prisoners are kept in bonds to see what are essentially shadow puppets upon the wall they are forced to stare at, believing them to be the reality of the outside world as they have no other frame of reference. Socrates goes on to say that if the prisoners were to be freed from their bonds they…

Distrust your senses and what is real is explained in Plato's "cave" analogy from the early dawn of philosophy, ~400 BC. Plato hypothesized that there is a reality outside of human's involvement. He analyzed the human "experience through the faculties"; he goes on to explain if you were born inside of a box, would the thought of world outside it, a world that is more real- even enter our minds? Imagine a group of people born into a cave chained by their legs and necks, facing the back wall.…

In the stories, What the Best College Students Do by Ken Bain, The Allegory of the Cave by Plato, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass, and The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty by Dan Ariely, the authors convey the importance of the freedom of learning and the different approaches to learning. Each author has a unique way of getting their point across; some through violence and some through experiments. The connection made between these stories 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…

I think that the main points illustrated by Plato's Allegory of the Cave are that people only know what they experience and only choose to accept what they have experienced, people who have knowledge have a responsibility to share it and that ignorance is bliss. The men trapped in the cave demonstrate how people will only believe what they have experienced by shunning the man who tries to tell them of the outside world. They aren't willing to accept that there is more to life than the wall and…

In Plato’s “ Allegory of the Cave,” Plato describes the cave as very dark with chained prisoners in front of a fire observing shadow of things. The shadows are the only “reality” they know. Outside the cave, there is “light” and the “truth”. A prisoner in the cave wanted freedom. But the prisoners could not get out. They were trap in the cave and all they could see were shadow illusions of people, animals and trees. So one day, one of the prisoners was granted freedom. He went out to the real…

the wall and a sofa in the middle of the cave. The bookcase housed a vast amount of books in many different sizes stacked by subject. Each section had its own theme and led me to believe the person living hidden in the cave was highly intellectual. As I stood there in the cave anxiously awaiting dawn to fall, large footsteps could be heard from the outdoors. My heart began to fret as the footsteps became louder and louder and the being came closer to the cave. I turned only to face…

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is a story of a man coming from a world of darkness into a world of enlightenment. The main theme of the story is to “illustrate what it's like to be a philosopher”. Plato wished to educate his audience, which is thought to be his pupils from the Academy or anyone whom was interested in learning from him. The Allegory of the Cave begin with a group of people all chained to the wall of a cave, preventing them from viewing anything but shadows on the wall before them…

Introduction: In this paper, I will argue that are like the prisoners in Plato's Allegory of The Cave. To make this argument, I will first out the Allegory of The Cave. Second, I will argue that we are like the prisoners about the fact that what we see is selected for us, much like the people in Plato's trench picking which figurines they will hold up. Third I will entertain the strongest possible counter-argument which is that we are not like the prisoners because we can choose what we watch.…

a person overcomes these hardships, a person has proven that they are now mature enough to handle reality and knowledge. In Plato’s, “Allegory Of The Cave”, Plato illustrates his point of view on education. Plato believes that in order to have real knowledge, we must gain it through philosophical reasoning (Trumpeter 2012). In “Allegory Of The Cave” Plato describes chained prisoners, that are faced towards a brick wall, with a pit of fire behind them, and in the middle a raised walkway. These…