Allegory Of The Cave Plato

In Plato's Cave, the prisoners are tied down with chains, hand, and foot under bondage. In fact they have been there since their childhood, which much like matrix people are seen as in reality being bound within a pad whereby they are feed images/illusions which keep them in a dreamlike state and they have been in this bondage by virtue of the virtual reality pads in the fields since their youth and like the allegory of the Cave they are completely unaware of such a predicament since in regards to the Cave they have become conditioned to the shadows that dance upon the wall and do not see the true forms of which the shadow is a mere non-substantial pattern of. In the Matrix, within the person of the virtual world, it is a non-substantial pattern of the world, it is reflective of the real world, it is a shadow in its form and nature being a simulation of the world at a particular point in history. Like the prisoners in the cave, those who are prisoners in the system of a matrix are held in their calm state by reason of the illusion that stimulates them and tricks them into remaining asleep or rather into being ignorant of the fact that they are prisoners in pads so the machines can feed on their bio-energy. The shadows on the wall which are reflective is to keep the prisoners on the Cave unaware of the fact that they are prisoners, that they are under bondage and have never truly seen life outside of the Cave. The shadows on the walls are by puppets, perchance puppeteers. They could be seen as the agents, whom within the Matrix being programs are to maintain that the humans asleep in the matrix remain in their comatose state, they are to support the illusion, by keeping man actively ignorant of what is truly happening, so they never wake up. The puppeteers of the puppets which are seen on the wall to keep the mind of the prisoners stimulated so they never realize that they are chained, and only have a vision that is straightforward, which is basically saying their minds are only subjected to a single perspective and they are blind to the degree of seeing within other perspectives, broader perspectives and this in and of itself is a limitation.

Thus, what the philosopher knows cannot be transmitted to the cave dwellers in a simple manner. Since the cave dwellers neither see the way to a good life nor are capable of getting there, the philosopher must create a royal lie such as the Myth of the Metals to the communicate with the non-philosopher.

One without knowledge can only conform to a leader or the majority’s will. A man from a cave, who has experienced the taste of enlightenment, would never return to his former dwelling with the same ideals he left behind. Plato meticulously introduced this idea in his allegory comparing the enlightenment o knowledge to a man, who found light after only recognizing darkness since birth. Despite the pain light can induce to eyes adjusted to the pitch black cave, the man was happier in the light than in the dark. Knowledge can aid in overcoming pain to find ecstasy. Knowledge would then develop into wisdom that can educate future generations of one’s own thoughts and culture. Knowledge and wisdom are inevitable assets to

In Allegory of the Cave, Plato conveys his message through the use of rhetorical device, repetition, and educational format, the Socratic method. The message explains that humans have preconceived ideas of reality, but they do have the power to achieve the truth or true knowledge. Ergo, it is necessary to spread the upper echelons of knowledge to others who do not possess it.

One of Plato’s more famous writings, The Allegory of the Cave, Plato outlines the story of a man who breaks free of his constraints and comes to learn of new ideas and levels of thought that exist outside of the human level of thinking. However, after having learned so many new concepts, he returns to his fellow beings and attempts to reveal his findings but is rejected and threatened with death. This dialogue is an apparent reference to his teacher’s theories in philosophy and his ultimate demise for his beliefs but is also a relation to the theory of the Divided Line. This essay will analyze major points in The Allegory of the Cave and see how it relates to the Theory of the Divided Line. Also, this

Plato is known to many as one of the most influential and greatest philosophers to have lived. Plato represents his idea of reality and the truth about what we perceive through one of his famous writings, “The Allegory of the Cave”. The philosophical writing is in the form of an allegory, which is “a story in which the characters and situations actually represent people and situations in another context”(Pg. 448). In the story, Plato uses the technique of creating a conversation between his teacher Socrates and his brother Glaucon.

he plight of the philosopher is often filled with discontent. The pursuit of truth often leads to more questions than answers. Is this search for the potentially unattainable worthwhile based on the unhappiness and discomfort it produces? Socrates and Voltaire both give a glimpse of their attitudes towards philosophy in their writings. Socrates, a man who was eventually charged and sentenced to death for his philosophical teachings, is of the belief that the pursuit of truth is of the upmost priority. In contrast, Voltaire questions whether such an endeavor is justifiable. These attitudes are portrayed by Socrates in the Apology and the Allegory of the Cave, while Voltaire confesses his perspective in the story of the Good Brahmin.

Plato, a famous Greek philosopher who wrote the 'Allegory of the Cave', attempted to answer some of these philosophical questions, most notably about the nature of reality. He tells the 'Allegory of the Cave' as a conversation between his mentor, Socrates, who inspired many of Plato's philosophical theories, and one of Socrates' students, Glaucon. They discuss the meaning of reality and how we as humans can be blinded by the dark shadows of reality. The shadows of the objects in the story represented society’s way of telling us what is real, and what is normal.

Is it possible to rip off the shackles that are bound to you? In Plato’s “The Allegory of The Cave” there are prisoners that are shackled to the ground, and one manages to get freed by a mysterious figure. Why did this figure free this one person and not the rest? Could this figure be something else other than human? Are the Prisoners actually tied down? So many questions could be rung from this story, guess we’ll have to find out.

Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” from his book, The Republic, highlights the ignorance our society faces by utilizing imagery and extended metaphors within a fictional conversation between his mentor, Socrates, and his brother, Glaucon. In my opinion, Plato’s main argument or point, in a sense, is that our people don’t question “why we are here” or “why this is happening” enough. We, as a society, merely accept the state of reality that we see and do not “turn our heads” around to see the bigger picture. Plato’s allegory reflects Socrate’s Theory of Forms, the things we see within the world are a pure reflection of the things the world represents. A metaphor of Socrate’s Theory of Forms is presented in Plato’s story when the prisoners, while

The Republic by Plato goal was to distinguish whether or not justice is better than injustice. Plato wants to prove that justice can be found within common people by the teachings of structure and discipline. Plato creates this “allegory of the cave” where people will learn the good and see the dim light that leads to unknown territory. While these people are in the cave, the only thing they will look for in the cave is finding the good and wisdom in themselves. In this cave one is supposed to learn about the contemplation of life.

In Plato’s “ The Cave Allegory,” he feels people are too stubborn, to welcome new concepts. He uses the analogy of the cave and the shadows to represent the nonsensical things people view as valuable knowledge. He uses the outside of the cave, and the true forms of things, to represent his philosophical logic. There is a prisoner, that has been shackled in this cave his entire life, and then suddenly was released to venture out of the cave, and into the real world. It took his eyes time to become adjusted to the darkness,

The cave allegory also proves that the role of education is not to teach in the sense of feeding people information they do not have, but rather to shed light on things they already know. Education "isn't the craft of putting sight into the soul. Education takes for granted that sight is there but that it isn't turned the right way or looking where it ought to look, and it tries to redirect it properly." (2)

During the era of Socrates and his contemporaries try seek enlightenment through discussing more complicated topics such as the definition of justice. Socrates suggests that his friends give definitions of key terms and what one considers just acts. There Socrates noticed that the beliefs of his friends had influenced the definition of justice for example Thrasymachus’ definition of just acts seem to be for the benefit of the strong. For me personally, one example that comes to mind when discussing Socrates and the quest for knowledge is the allegory of the cave where the enlightened would return to help those still in the cave and those in the refusing believe the knowledge of the outside. This is another downside and it's when others place too much faith in their beliefs than

With the guardians-philosopher king-, who have been identified by prolonged scrutiny to be lovers of wisdom, the balance of pleasure in the soul, weighs on reasoning