Prisoner of war

describes a situation of prisoners that see shadows on a wall and perceive it to be reality due to a narrow minded perception of the real world. Unfortunately, the prisoners Plato is referring to are humans in the real world, and he is making the claim that humans should not accept the reality in which we live in. Instead we should stretch personal development and bring the status quo into question. One prisoner manages to escape and realize what is truly happening…

wall and while the prisoners know a name for the thing, what they see is not true belief. The prisoners however know the names of the perceived things and while their reality is a façade, their soul knows of forms. I will explain how the darkness is ignorance, shadows are perception in the material world, how the prisoners had knowledge to begin with, and how they account for Plato’s epistemology. The darkness of the cave was Ignorance in physical form, this lead the prisoners to believe that…

On Redemption A prisoner steps out of his musty cell, squinting at the bright sunlight. As he takes his first breath of the free air, his spirits soar. However, there is a lingering question on his mind, like an itch that cannot properly be placed. Though he has served his time, can he ever really redeem himself, or is he destined to die with the weight of his crimes upon him? He shrugs and walks on, as many before him have done. Yet he still struggles with this age-old question. So, too, does…

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,…

Philosophy is more prevalent in some people than in others and the level at which we interact with our surroundings differs too. The Allegory of the Cavemen and the Good Brahmins Voltaire seek to depict how society, norms, environment, history and religion play a role in either ensnaring or enlightening people and how the past, present and future are all shaped by philosophy. The Apology and Allegory of Cave Readings is a tale that is initially set in a dark cave where nothing else seems to…

The film Cave of Forgotten Dreams takes the viewer inside the lost cave presently known as the Chauvet Cave of Southern France. Once inside the filmmaker Werner Herzog captures the pictures of the oldest paintings of humankind in their natural setting among the walls of this long lost subterranean area. As a result, a group of scientist discovered this cave in 1994 , and it was given the name Chauvet Cave after one of the members of the three person party. After entering the small opening to…

Music is more than just words coupled with harmony and instruments. Music, like most (arguably all) forms of art and media, tell stories. Stories are certainly important, for they convey, or better put, reflect, what it means to be human; the human experience, the hardships of life—joy, pain, suffering, the universal struggle, the why. Bluntly put, we don’t know much about why we’re here on this floating sphere of sea and land amidst the lonely, dark abyss that is the universe. Perhaps it's a…

of Education”, the two authors focus on a similar topic: education and delusions. In Plato’s Allegory, Plato discusses a scenario where prisoners, except for one who escapes, are inside a cave that impairs their ability to view the outside world. His writing is an allegory discussing his views of education and false beliefs with the use of the cave and the prisoners. Freire discusses two different styles of education: the banking concept and the problem-posing concept, while hinting a preference…

Over this semester, the two works that stood out to me the most were Plato's Cave and the writing Jobs in the bible. Plato's Cave is allegorical writing with much representation in the atmosphere of the story. Plato's cave starts off by describing a dark, little to no light cave with people chained down by shackles in it. The peoples only entertainment and occupation is watching the shadows on the wall. They know nothing else but the show does that apead on the Wall.Eventually in the story, one…

Plato's Cave is a allegory writing about two different worlds and the escape of one individual to see both, but is not able to share what he has seen because of people not being open to learning new things. It starts off in a dark, dim-lighted cave. In the cave, there are people tied down in chains and can hardly move. The people are facing a wall and from the little light that there is, the people watch shadows of varies objects for all their time and that is basically there world. Little do…