Caves

in denial and accepting the truth. In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, there are three prisoners that have been imprisoned in a cave for their whole life. They’ve only seen the same wall this whole time and their only source of light would is a fire which is behind them which creates shadows. At one point a prisoner is able to free himself from the chains, when he goes out he realizes that everything he’s been seeing on the walls of the cave are different once outside. He learns what is real and…

noted their adamancies in winning another argument, and not contemplating fully, he uses an allegory of a cave (in Book VII) to represent their ignorance to a better way of living or thinking. Plato wrote Respublica…

Plato’s allegory of cave is from his work “Republic” in which he describes a group of people who are chained to the wall such that they cannot move at all , facing a blank wall and have lived like that for all their lives. They have no knowledge of the outside world so they are presented with shadows that are casted from the fire behind them, so they name the shadows and they are the real person for them as they are unaware of the outside world so they form their own world in the cave. These…

In the “Allegory of the Cave”, one prisoner breaks free from the chains. His curiosity causes him to escape and go to the outside world. When the prisoners are first “ liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light… he…

The Allegory of the Cave is an intensely influential philosophical work by Plato, a philosopher in Classical Greece. It comes from a larger dialogue called The Republic which is spoken from the point of view of Socrates, Plato’s teacher. Plato writes in the allegory about how humans can come to knowledge and about reality. Not too long after his time period, Christianity came into existence. Christianity is based on the teachings and work of Jesus. Jesus lived when Rome was the world power, not…

The allegory of the cave is meant to be a visual aid for Plato, through Socrates, to show how philosophers come to be from a common crowd, how they come to understand the forms, and how they should teach those who do not understand the forms and be the ones who rule over the city. A second way to view the allegory is as a description of how education begins even today. Plato starts off by comparing ignorance to living in a cave with limited knowledge, which makes sense when one thinks about how…

As a student attending Stuyvesant High School, I am constantly pressured by my parents to excel, whether it be receiving a scholarship, achieving fame, or pursuing a good career. School had always been enjoyable for me and the highlight of my day, until I finally reached high school. It suddenly became a number game, where competition started to become a factor and the goal is to be the top student of the class by scoring the highest on tests. While I have been a firm believer that grades…

The Allegory of the Cave The Republic written in the 380 BC by the famous philosopher Plato is a Socratic dialogue that talks about key issues in our system including order, justice and character of just city-state and just man. The dialogue setting is thought to be during the Peloponnesian war. Plato’s work, Republic became extremely renowned and was used in both philosophical and political realms. There are ten books in Plato’s work Republic, but The Allegory of the Cave is the most famous…

In the Republic, Socrates affirms that in the ideal state the philosophers will have to be compelled to “return to the cave” and to take up their ideal position as rulers of the city. I feel that this compulsion is not really as such, and is simply indoctrination within the education of the ideal state. The concept of them being left alone comes to mind, as the philosopher is inherently different from most of his fellow man by the very nature of what defines him, a lover of knowledge. I show…

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…