Our Reality In Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

In the Allegory of the Cave there are chained prisoners in cave who can only stare at the cave wall in front of them. At the back there is a long entrance with a staircase the width of the cave and a fire burning in the distance. They see only shadows projected in front of them from a raised platform and hear an echo that they attribute to what they observe. They talk about and name the shadows of objects they see before them. To them the truth are the shadows. Then one day one of the prisoners is released. He is told that what he saw before was an illusion. Once he is outside it takes a while for his eyes to adjust to the sun. First he observed the shadows of thing then their reflection and finally the actual object. Remembering his previous state he goes back to the cave and tries to explain that everything is an illusion but they laugh at him and think he’s crazy. They believe it best not to ascend and they choose to remain as they are. The cave represented opinion. The shadows that are cast on to the wall represented physical objects. The prisoners represented the common people (Welles).

Plato's message is for us to continue to explore and investigate and not get stuck with our five senses because our five senses or forms limit humans and are only useful to some extent. Also for us to learn from mistakes, learn about nature, humans, purpose of life, etc. so we as humans can improve our lives and become more successful. He wants us to be philosophers, to talk and explain with one another, but to be careful to who we explain. In a way, he says to receive answers for our own benefit and only help our self to avoid ending like the Freed

Once the person is outside of the cave they are blind and when they finally are able to see, they do not believe the outside world to be real. At first they can only see shadows and then eventually they are able to differentiate objects from one another. Lastly, the person is able to look at the sun itself. The sun represents good and now the person knows the truth. The cave is an illusion and the games they played in there were pointless.

However living there is a choice and we has a society just need to accept it. What may seem like a nightmare for us may be a normal everyday thing for someone else. The best thing we can do has a society is be kind to one another. If you see someone is struggling, help them out. Whether it’s a little money, food, a warm blanket, etc. I think sometimes we forget that we are all humans and we need to take care of each other. This world can be a cruel place but we have the choice to make it a little brighter for someone

it’s not always easy. Sometimes we find ourselves in front of a lie or an illusion and we’re not

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 the dialogue. According to the Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” It described conditions of people chained at birth unable to function as independent individuals that were locked in a protracted dark cave. They were allowed to rotate their necks but could not stand up unless told to or leave the cave. Within this cave they could only watch a wall showing flash images and objects as if the prisoners were watching a play or movies at a theater. They believed that the pictures shown on the wall were factual in which they were just shadows of objects that were behind them. The objects reflected forms and puppet that were placed up by puppeteers to create shadows on the wall. The prisoners were unable to see the puppeteers and seemed as if they were watching a puppet show in the dark.

understand the inner workings of the mind, and what truly controls our actions and who we are.

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

I would not want to and all I could do is to struggled in this murky place with lies that chain me to this fake world.

The entire world is experiencing these changes and it will not vanish just because some individuals are ignoring the causes. We have to face reality and admit that it is happening before we can change it.

Today, people are shrouded in ignorance. Worse, plenty are aware of their ignorance, but are unwilling or scared to stand up and demand change, preferring to plod through their lives, feeling safe in their repetitive schedules and choosing blindness of reality. We are quickly losing our grip on the possibilities of saving the future, leaving our children and future generations a mess, so incomprehensible; they may not be capable of cleaning it up. We could be of the last generation to live life as

Why we are living with shadows? Whether we are all ignorant? Or we are all lazy enough to find out the reality? Or we are slaves of these shadows? Is everything we saw are lies, then what is the real truth? Is knowledgeable realm, form of good is the last thing to be seen?

Much of what we experience in our childhood influences how we will see the world and how we navigate in it. A person may become an Atheist because they blame God for a bad experience during their childhood. Another might believe in God because they feel he helps them deal with the bad experiences. Either way if they choose a belief solely based on their experiences they will miss the possibility of seeing a greater life changing truth that would leave them open for the good that can help them lead even more joyful and fulfilled lives according to Socrates. I believe the dark, lower part of the cave can represent the emotional darkness that one may not even be aware of but that may need to be explored and faced in order to have to capacity to move upward to the upper level of reality in the cave. The higher, non-physical realities of self-love, justice, truth can then be seen once one examines their experience and understands that it shouldn’t be the entire basis of one’s belief. When one transcends beyond the bad, emotional experience to explore the non-physical realities such as self-love then one can transcend to the outside of the cave and into the world of others. The good resulting from self-love is the capacity to love others and love is good for everyone’s

By viewing reality in this bifurcated way, it is still philosophically useful to an extent as it provides different perspectives to worldly problems. It forces humans to critically evaluate their knowledge, along with ethical and practical considerations and practices When adopting this view, it should be done so with caution as there are still some flaws within this way of thinking.

Rule, and it’s every kind of rule that you commonly think of as well as the ‘they say’ rules you’ve heard all your Life, and then there’s the instinctual and/or archetypal rules. Rule has authority over what one might personally feel to be right.