Platonism

The 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…

“Allegory of the Cave”, a short story written by the Greek philosopher Plato gives an insight on how people’s perspectives can be constrained to what is known, can be altered exploring out on mental tolerance but can be disdained by ones who are still constrained. Life represents “Human beings living in an underground cave” (Plato, 360 AD, p.1), where its atmosphere is filled with constraints and limited perspectives, where the word underground shows this atmosphere to be oppressive towards the…

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…

The Allegory of the Cave and the Question of Philosopher’s Happiness Plato’s Allegory of the Cave presents the reader with perhaps one of the most beautiful and enlightening metaphors in literature. His depiction of the rise of a soul from the cave of intellectual deficiency to the light of knowledge serves as the perfect analogy for the intellectual and education ascension of Philosopher-Kings in his ideal city described in The Republic. Similarly, it depicts superbly the stages of his Simile…

Inside the story of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” we find prisoners held down by shackles inside a dark den with an only source of light that is fire behind them, as a result, that all they can see are shadows, until one day one prisoner breaks free and escape from the cavern and sees “reality”, but momentarily he gets temporary blindness because he wasn't adapted to light by the cause that all he saw in his life were shadows and darkness, after a while he explores and sees the sun he admires…

In“Allegory of the Cave,” Plato starts by describing a cave whereby men are been locked up since childhood. He says “picture men dwelling in a sort of subterranean cavern with a long entrance open to the light on its entire width.” Then he says the are some men are being chained up unable to look around just to face in front of them the walkway whereby shadows are being casts by the fire light behind them.All the knew and saw are the shadows of objects that are portray on the wall and were…

The disinclination of humans to question the information they perceive is a timeless phenomenon. This concept dates back to 380 BC, when Plato wrote the short story, “Allegory of the Cave”, in his magnum opus, The Republic. The allegory depicts humankind as prisoners, bound so they can only see what is directly in front of them: shadows cast by various objects passing behind them. However, as they have only ever been exposed to the shadows, the prisoners believe they are the true forms of each…

In this essay, I will argue the main keys to the advantage of leading a just life, which better than unjust life. In The Republic by Plato, speaks through his teacher Socrates who sets out the basic laws for humans through the longest argument among group of friends in a meeting at Polemarchus house. Socrates presents a question, “What is Justice?” He continues to disprove any answer he was given. Therefore, he present no definition of his own. Later, Thrasymachus, present himself like a wild…

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave offered meaningful insight into the education process. To begin the allegory, Plato proposed that a group of prisoners were chained and unable to move because of these chains. They could only gaze upon one thing, the shadows which were projected onto the wall by a fire set above and behind them. These shadows were of various different items that were being carried by people behind a wall that enabled only the shadows of the items to be projected. Since the prisoner…

The Allegory of the Cave is a hypothesis put into perspective by Plato, regarding human awareness. In the short story a group of prisoners have been confined in a cavern ever since birth with no knowledge of the outside world. They are chained facing a wall unable to turn their heads. While a fire behind them gives off a faint light. Sometimes people pass by carrying figures of animals and other objects that cast shadows on the wall. The prisoners believe that the shadows are real and they begin…