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    examined life is not worth living. Either way, it is clear that the journey to self-knowledge should not be taken without the ability to move past it and adapt with it. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Socrates discusses that when a prisoner first realizes the shadows were only illusions and is taken out of the cave,…

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    According to Wikipedia, “A baseball glove is a large leather glove worn by baseball players of the defending team, which assists players in catching and fielding balls hit by a batter or thrown from a teammate.” To some that do not know the game, a baseball glove is a brown piece of leather to catch a baseball, but to me it has a lot more meaning. The smell of the glove, breaking it in just how it should be, and best of all making a sensational diving play is what I love the most about my glove.…

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    Plato also explains how individuals and the Forms are related through the Allegories of the Sun and the Cave. The world, he says, is split up into two realms: the visible and the intelligible. The visible realm is made up of everything that is tangible and able to be perceived by our humanly senses. The intelligible world is made up of the Forms or in other words, the abstract, unchanging absolutes like Goodness and Beauty that exist in the universe. They are objects of wisdom that possess…

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    student at a desk and the teacher teaching them. In reality education is so much more than a lecture from the teacher to the student because education is constantly being developed throughout a person’s everyday life. Two stories, “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato and “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by Paulo Freire have two very different views on what the best method of education looks like. When comparing the two it is evident that the “problem-posing” method is better way to teach because it…

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    Set during the period where Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals co-existed it begins with an earthquake shattering young Ayla’s carefree life as a child as it leads to the loss of her parents, a significant life-threatening injury from a cave lion, and aimless wandering. Discovered and ultimately adopted by a Neanderthal clan, ruled by their traditions and group memories, she struggles to find the balance between acclimating and her natural tendencies, which dramatically conflict with her…

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    The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart makes the reader see that Merlin is not only a magical being, but a real person. Throughout the book the author pulls the reader into the world of fifth century adventure, suspense, and romance. This is all done by using imagery and a well rounded characters story. It all adds up to make the audience feel as if they are actually taking part in the life of Merlin unfolding. From the very beginning The Crystal Cave impresses with the paragraph: “ With the coming…

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    not actual, he has been deceived. The Matrix has created a false reality for him. Only once he has been given a pill is he able to awaken from his dream state and enter the ‘real world’ (Matrix Film, 1999). In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave humanity is chained in a cave, facing a wall. Their only perception of what is real is in the shadows that play out in front of them. For them nothing else exists. This is reality. When one of the prisoners…

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    Introduction The philosopher Socrates has his own attitude towards the Apology and Allegory of the Cave Readings in which the prisoners were living in the illusion of the images they see in front of them without moving their head. On the other hand, the Good Brahmin's (Voltaire) attitude who was living with the ignorance where he was not sure about the reality but he was teaching others on the same subject. The Socrates believes that truth was the shadows of images rather than nothing. Body The…

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    seeking truth or truth itself really possible for us? As we can only testify one thing’s authenticity by another thing in the empirical, in fact we can never escape from our subjective world. It seems like a generalized case of Plato’s allegory of cave, which denies the possibility of reason or philosophical thinking’s helping us to achieve truth, since reason itself seems to rely on shadow cast on the wall. The world may only be a subjective world. The objective world, though is logically…

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    Why am I here? Why am I here? Truly, there is no right or wrong to this question. All one can do is speculate. As Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, it seemed to him that we are all enslaved to what we think we may know, and are scared to gain knowledge. There are multiple ways to answer this question depending on which lens you decide to apply to the question. Superficially, I am here, as in enrolled in College for that is the best move someone in my situation. As times have changed from my…

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