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    Nagel raises captivating inquiries in his book, "What does everything mean?" Do we live in reality? Is this present reality just as genuine as we see it to be? What is the significance of life? In the first place, we will investigate our view of the 'genuine' world and attempt to answer if that world is genuinely there or in our brains. Besides, suppose the world is genuine what's more, every other person in it, when we think about the subject of the psyche and the cerebrum; did we have that…

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    It is human nature to be terrified of the unknown. Plato has conflicting views when regarding the existence of certainty and doubt in society. In Plato's The Allegory of the Cave, the cave may represent this superficial reality, everything that the prisoners have knowledge of has been conceived from mere illusions created by shadows. Because the prisoners had no sort of contact with the outside world they have become certain that the shadows were real. In Plato's Euthyphro, Socrates has been…

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    Theory of Dimensions In Plato's' The Allegory of the Cave, allows an individual to realize that which they already know. The situation in the cave seems dark and gloomy, like a place no one would ever want to go. However, the reality is that some people are at a point in their lives where that is where they are, in their own "cave". The people that are in Plato's' cave, the prisoners, have always been there. They all have their legs and necks chained and cannot move. They cannot turn their necks…

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    Would he not find the prizes they give to be meaningless in comparison to what he now knows? Socrates: But those prizes held meaning in the life he left, which was his reality. Pentheus: What he saw became greater, therefore his world became greater. The world he knows now is so much larger than that of the cave. I find you more and more a fool. This is a topic on which we will never agree. Go on, Socrates. Socrates: And…

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    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…

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    Their lives revolve around this one reality that they can only experience and contemplate. Following this scenario, the poor people talk about it, they joke about it, and they even name the puppets, all in the name of making the best use of the only life they are aware of. However, amidst the…

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    Realism Magical realism is a mixture of culture and oral tradition, made to seem a reality. Magical realism is when the story is in a real world setting, but has magical factors and unexplainable events that attempt to make the reader a believer of something. Magical realism is composed of, historical and cultural realities, magical elements, and a metamorphosis occurring with someone. Historical and cultural realities help to convince the reader that there was a real event that took place.…

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    meaning these objects then get cast onto the cave wall opposite from the prisoners. Socrates claims that to these men, these shadows are all that they consider reality. The Allegory continues as one of the men is released and dragged to the mouth of the cave, where he is temporarily blinded by the harsh sunlight. Eventually, the man discovers a reality beyond what he experienced in the cave. The man eventually pities his peers down in the cave and returns to the cave to attempt to…

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    one of the prisoners got release. While outside it was hard for him to adapt to the reality such as the sunlight which got to his eyes and blinded him because he has been used to darkness and also everything…

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    101. Why THE THIRD TESTAMENT Equals to PEACE & LOVE? • The Spiritual Science clearly indicates and through incontestable Cosmic Analyses elaborates that “the whole religious instinct in Human Beings is a product of an organic function, which gives rise to a cry for protection, a cry for lasting peace, for culture and happiness, a cry for a higher form of Existence…” Undoubtedly, the religious instinct shows itself in multifold of ways. However, neither through religious worships nor through…

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