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purpose, where Plato emphasizes an identical message through a metaphorical story. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the prisoners draw conclusions solely based on what others show them as a perception of reality, however one should find an understanding the meaning of life through experiences of their own. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, prisoners are restricted by chains and confined in a cave that literally and figuratively lacks a light into the realities of the world outside. A wall…

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the Role of Philosophy Very few subjects, if any, divides opinions as much as philosophy. Philosophy occupies a realm of logic and reasoning which is often considered to be mutually exclusive from the more commonly accepted ones of science and mathematics. This difference can often lead to the masses questioning the efficacy of philosophy. However, for those who understand the true value of philosophy and are willing to invest the time and attention that is…

Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” describes men who have been held prisoner in a cave for their entire lives that are brought out if the cave for the first time, and represents men searching for knowledge. Through the allegory, Plato claims that anyone can access knowledge and the truth, so long as the seeker is willing to pursue them. However, in Kleist’s “The Marquise of O—," the characters’ individual attempts to access the truth all come up short. In the paragraph that begins on page 108,…

block us from obtaining that knowledge in regards to the state of the human mind, through his short story “The Allegory of the Cave” about a dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon who acts an interlocutor. Additionally, Bacon’s essay titled “The Four…

understanding of the world. Within in Plato’s The Republic, the allegory of the cave shows the process of learning what is real and its importance within a just society. Plato, within the allegory of the cave, utilizes the prison in opposition with the upper world to further expound upon the theory of forms and ultimately further justify the Philosopher as the ideal ruler. Plato’s analogy of the cave operates on the binary of the cave and the upper world; these two binaries then correlate with…

“Allegory of the Cave” was written by Greek philosopher, Plato. Plato successfully pursued his mentor, Socrates, as his dialogues and writings became well known in society today. The cave in this excerpt can be interpreted into many many ideas. Based on “Allegory of the Cave,” the cave in the passage represents lack of knowledge (lecture 2015) since the prisoners believed that the shadows of objects were the true form. Moreover, my cave would be my parents and their perspective on appearance…

story Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, translation by Thomas Sheehan explains how people are living in cavelike dwelling like prisoners and not in the real word. It’s telling us how people are stuck in one place because they don't believe that there is something different from what and where they are living. In the story there was a prisoner that had escaped from the cave and was able to view the outside world and how different it was. Once he went back into the cave and told the other prisoners…

Acceptance Would it be easier just to live in the shadows your entire life? Plato 's Allegory of the Cave is about prisoners in a cave that only know one thing, the shadows. One prisoner gets set free and sees a whole different reality than the one known true to him. The allegory teaches that what the unenlightened people see is merely an illusion. My coming out and my self-acceptance with the help of my grandfather parallels the experience of Plato 's prisoner. Like the prisoner, I learned…

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Plato’s “Allegory of the cave” is still relevant today because, people today are still close minded or blind to what is real and don’t want to go out and see the truth about the world. I think people are still blind today because they are always ignorant and don’t want to see what is really lying in wait for them to see that is the truth. There’s barely anyone that has actually ever seen the truth and they are always trying to spread it to show other people but the world is too ignorant to stop…