Allegory Of The Cave Vs Plato's Cave

The process of apprehending true knowledge is a task unfit for those who cannot overcome the concepts that the truth is associated with. This task of discovering knowledge tests an individual and their dedication to the process. However, this process is grueling and does not always yield the expected or

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave envisions the world as a dark cave, with human beings as trapped and chained as prisoners, and all of their experiences as nothing but shadows on a wall. Plato was an Ancient Greek philosopher who founded the Academy and is the author of philosophical works. Plato is informing the reader of the world around them, and is guiding the reader in the journey from ignorance to wisdom.

Both Philosophers Aristotle and Plato have very different perspectives according to their metaphysics. Plato explains his metaphysics through the story of the allegory of the cave which conveys his story of the Divided Line, while on the other hand Aristotle explains his metaphysics through his idea of actuality versus potentiality which leds him to the discussion of substance. Plato explains his metaphysics in a sense where he mainly discusses the idea of knowledge and truth through ideas, while Aristotle on the other hand explains his metaphysics in a real life sense offering the stronger system for being able to break down his belief in great detail applying it to the real world, which can stem out to being applied to everything.

In Plato’s, “Allegory of the Cave”, a key theory I found was the importance of gaining knowledge. Plato uses an “allegory to illustrate the dilemma facing the psyche in the ascent to knowledge of the imperishable and unchanging forms” (Fiero, 104). Based on my research of the Republic, the allegory can reveal multiple hidden messages. Plato describes in the Allegory, ordinary mortals who are chained within an underground chamber, which according to Fiero, represents the psyche imprisoned within the human body. These mortals can’t look sideways, but rather only straight ahead. On top of this, they also can’t leave the cave. These prisoners are facing a cave wall that they can only see shadows reflecting from a fire of what they imagine are men. These mortals have been in this cave since childhood, which makes them believe the shadows themselves are the men, not a shadow of an actual man. Again, according to Fiero, the light, represents true knowledge, and the shadows on the walls of the cave represent the imperfect and perishable imitations of the forms that occupy the world of the senses.

Plato, an Ancient Greek and highly esteemed philosopher, is best known for his text, The Republic. More specifically, though, it is his “Allegory of the Cave” in Book VII of this text that draws most scholars to him. This specific allegory has been used by writers for hundreds

While interpreting Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave’’ in which is a representation that described a narrative of the society of people in before Christ years. I realized how there was a major comparison of people in today’s society that reflected the same prisoner traits as the prisoners that were described

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.

Knowledge is said that can be taught by someone who has certainly more understanding and experience than someone else. According to Plato, in the case of the cave, between the prisoner and the instructor, knowledge can’t be transmitted. Every person has different experiences and points of view that would distort the interpretation, thus, having different meanings. Instead, the best way is by directing, meaning that the role of the instructor is to guide its students to what is relevant and important in life, which will allow the student to learn independently. Walking towards the light which can also be perceived as knowledge, is the main need in order to reach self-actualization. “Last of all he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the water, but he will see him in his own proper place, and not in

People are very ignorant towards homeless people, just how the prisoners are in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” to the outside world. Society seems to view the homeless as nasty, dirty people who are drug addicts when in reality a lot of them are just in very unfortunate situations that they can't get themselves out of. Just like the rich may view the poor and the educated may view the uneducated, people are quick to judge things that they are ignorant of. I know this based on first hand knowledge and experience about how it to be

“The Truman Show” and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” writings were astonishingly similar in theory. Even though these two writings were written almost 2500 years apart, there were many key concepts alike. In both writings there was an imprisonment of a man from childhood to adulthood. Both of these men had a series of events occur as they grew older, which allowed their eyes and mind to see and process the truth of the world and to forget their ignorance. “... I proceed to say, go in to compare our natural condition, so far as education and ignorance are concerned, to a state of things like the following.” This statement from Plato truly states the theory of mind in which is portrayed in both “The Truman Show” and Plato.

After reading The Matrix, Plato’s Allegory of the cave and Rene Descartes Meditation 1, there

In Plato's “Allegory Of The Cave” he expresses that people are innately born with abilities like thinking and communicating, but their individual outlook on life is relative to their experiences in life; their educational awareness. Like the men chained in the “cave”, restricted to see only shadows of images cast by fire light and muffled echo sounds of voices; if one is restricted from experiencing new things, places or ideas, then in life their reality is limited to only the experiences they have had. The shadows the prisoners see on the wall are their reality not the actual objects that made the images. As our text “”Think” buy Judith A. Boss indicates, experience and facts we receive from additional resources is the basic level of thinking. Without continued facts and experiences, without education, our thinking is limited to our narrowed reality (shadows).

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave Plato’s Allegory to the Cave was a very challenging yet intriguing piece to read. I had some trouble reading the story because of the way it was worded, but the deeper meaning really caught my attention. I really enjoyed the scenario that was created to convey the deeper meaning too. The deeper meaning of being able to come to face with reality can relate to many events in my life. Something else that I strongly agreed with even though it was tough to understand was the view on politics and the deeper meaning.

Plato’s analogy “The Allegory of the Cave,” is one of the most famous in philosophy. The theory is that Plato’s creates an imagination that their are people trapped and chained inside of a cave and that they are not able to leave the cave no matter what. Everyone in the cave are destined to spent their entire lives in this state. In the back of a cave, there burns a fire, causing shadows to appear and cast images on the cave walls. Plato suggests that there are two different forms of vision, the “mind’s eye” and the “bodily eye.” The “bodily eye” is a metaphor for the senses. While inside the mysterious cave, the prisoners function only with this eye. The “mind’s eye” is a higher level of thinking, and is available only when the prisoner is released into the outside world. This “eye” does not exist within the cave; it only exists in the real, perfect world.

PHILOSOPHY ASSESSMENT: PLATO'S ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE PART A: Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory (a story with a deeper meaning) about first discovering philosophy and its teachings, the allegory starts of as prisoners at birth have been forced to watching shadows puppets projected on walls of a cave from a fire; the prisoner, as Plato says is every person to have existed or to exist at this moment in time. As the prisoners watch the shadows, they're perception of reality are the shadows and they live out their lives as normal until one of the prisoners is released, the light from the fire hurts their eyes, they are exposed to things that they can't understand, slowly they come to terms that the shadows are not reality, it's actually the objects; when the official allegory says "... While his sight was still weak, and before his eyes had become steady (and the time which would be needed to acquire this new habit of sight might be very considerable) would he not be ridiculous ?... " it's where Plato explains that where the prisoner is exposed to the teachings philosophy and where they discover what is reality actually is. The prisoner becomes curious, so they discover more of the world and what reality is, their perception of reality becomes stronger, their curiosity wants the other prisoners to see what they see, as the