Analysis Of ' The Cave Wall '

It is truly amazing to see how far photography has come. With practical cameras only being 1800s when they were extremely large to now where everyone has one in their pocket as part of their phone. To make it even more incredible photos taken now can be shared across the world in the matter of seconds with the simple push of a button. There are even social media applications dedicated to only sharing pictures as a quick glimpse into your life. However, what is truly incredible about a picture is the emotions it can evoke, and the change that it can start.

A similarity and difference can be found when examining Bartleby's cave which is him secluding himself from others by staying in his office, and his mask which is his unwillingness to share any personal information. First, both his cave and mask create a barrier between him and others around. Support can be found when Melville states: “ At present, I prefer to give no answer,” he said and retired into his hermitage” (77). This occurs after his boss asks him where he was born. Here, it is suggested when Bartleby states “ I prefer not to answer” that he is not interested in establishing rapport with those around him and instead he decides to go back into his office. Similarly, his cave of isolation prevents him from sharing information. In fact

Photography gives you a small sample of reality, but these realities have been changed to what the photographer wants to present. However as Sontag stated, “Of course, photographs fill in the blanks in our mental pictures of the present and the past.” Pictures show proof that all of the history that we learn is true, but although it confirms that, pictures does not show us the entire picture of how people felt about the situation. For example, one might have a picture from WWII and show us the setting, but does that picture really show the feeling of the people? That is why we say that photography only goes as far as to how the photographer wants to show the

The general concept of education is for students to learn from their teachers. Students grasp ideas and info from their teachers in order to increase their knowledge. Students take knowledge from their teachers & try to memorize them so that they can increase their knowledge. In the excerpts, “Allegory of the Cave,” and Paulo Freire's “The Banking Concept of Education,” both philosophers believe in freedom in learning. In the article, “Is Google Making us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr states that when people have their freedom with their education with technology, it can result to a disadvantage.

What is real, what is not, how can I really know the world around me? These are simple questions that philosophers have pondered on for hundreds of years. This type of questioning falls under the topic of metaphysics which deals with two broad questions of what is there and what is it like? Philosophers that discuss metaphysics question what we perceive in this world and attempt to clarify the sensations that we feel. Plato a renowned philosopher and student to Socrates had his own theories when it came to metaphysics. Plato believed that the world we perceive is a mere copy of an even greater reality that can only be unlocked by ideas and not material

The synopsis: The Matrix, the excerpts from The Allegory of the Cave and Meditation I of the Things of Which We May Doubt. The writing makes a person reevaluate what is real, or are we part of a bigger system that control our every action to be moved like chess pieces to judge our reactions or; are we dreaming. The three writing are plausible but shows skepticism and justification. Reality is based on sense perception. (Dew & Foreman p.41)

In the one year of taking the Dignity and Vocation of Men course, I have learned more about what it truly is to be a man than I have in my other three years of religion classes. Having almost a class of all men, all friends and most importantly, all aspiring DigVocMen helped me to realize that this goal of a true man should be a shared goal, one we all strive for and can reach by helping each other through a community of sorts. I found most of the texts we read this year to be really profound, and they all helped me foster this understanding of what it really means to be a man in the light of God, in particular Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, Redemptoris Custos,and Guardini’s reflection on silence instilled in me the framework of what it really means to uphold the Dignity and Vocation of Man in everyday life.

Q: Is Plato trying to say about (people, politics, and knowledge) when he has Socrates describing the cave and its inhabitants?

My personal philosophy aligns a lot with Plato and Augustine. These two philosophers thought almost just like me when it came to changing the world or trying to make it great and Augustine believing that God created everything is how I feel to.

In the history of the cave in Book VII of the Republic of Plato, Socrates attempts to convince his disciple Glaucon of the state in which most of the human beings are regarding the knowledge of truth and ignorance, illustrating his disciple in Questions concerning wisdom. (514a)

Written over two thousand years apart, The Matrix and The Allegory of the Cave still stir up the same type of intellectual discussions over full enlightenment despite taking place in an entirely different world. Written between 380 and 360 B.C, The Allegory of the Cave, depicts a hypothetical situation in which a group of prisoners have been chained since birth only able to see the shadows casted on to the wall in front of them. They know nothing more than the shadows they see on the wall, completely oblivious to everything going on in the world. However, just because that’s all they know, doesn’t mean that’s all there is, it isn’t until they are unchained and introduced to the real world that they are truly enlightened. Much later, in

​“The Matrix” and the story “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato is the reflection of the week. The interpretation of reality and knowledge plays a big part in these stories. You can’t have true knowledge if you don’t have a true reality. Review ​In The Matrix the problem of reality was once you learned the true state of the world, you could never go back. All the images that are in your mind before you knew the real reality of the world is still there after you have opened your eyes.

The meaning of the cave allegory is clear. The cave represents the world of appearances, the world in which most people live. Outside the cave is the intelligible world of forms. The sun represents the ultimate form of good. It is the source of all other forms in the upper world and the cause of their mutual order and harmony. The search for truth is represented allegorically as leaving the cave of false or imperfect images of reality and entering the upper world of pure unchanging forms that alone are the true objects of knowledge.

In “Allegory of the Cave,” Plato illustrates a conversation between Socrates and his student, Glaucon, about prisoners trapped within a cave since childhood with “their legs and necks in bonds so that they are fixed, seeing only in front of them.” The only source of light these prisoners have is “…a fire burning far above and behind them. Between the fire and the prisoners there is a road above, along which see a wall, built like the partitions puppet-handlers set in front of the human beings and over which they show the puppets." However, a twist is presented. If a prisoner managed to get out of their shackles and look into the fire, they would turn back and realize that the images they saw weren’t real at all.

A team of researchers from all over the world, include many scientists from the University of Cambridge, recently discovered “graffiti” on a cave wall in central China that describes the effects that several droughts over the past 500 years had on the local population, telling a story of the impact of climate change that spans several centuries.