Perceptions In Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

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.

Plato's Allegory of the Cave is also termed as the Analogy of the Cave, Plato's Cave, or the Parable of the Cave. It was used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to illustrate "our nature in its education and want of education". It comprises of a fictional dialogue between Plato's teacher Socrates and Plato's brother Glaucon. Socrates gives a description of a group of people who spent their lifetime facing a blank wall chained to the wall of a cave. These people saw and tried to assign forms of the shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them. These shadows as put by Socrates, are what the prisoners can view close to reality (Law 2003). He further compares a philosopher to the prisoner who is freed from the cave and comprehends that he can envision the true form of reality instead of the shadows which the prisoners saw in the cave and these shadows do not depict reality at all.

The stages of Plato’s “cave journey” begin with people stuck in a dark cave. They are chained from birth, unable to move their bodies and can only see straight ahead. A fire behind them creates the shadows of objects being flashed on a wall in front of them. They have never seen the real objects, so they believe the shadows of the objects to be real. The people stuck in the cave begin a guessing game; trying to guess which objects will appear next, and whoever guess correctly would be praised by the others. At the mouth of the cave there is a glimmer of light, and the possibility of life outside the cave.

The one prisoner finally escaping the cave to the outside light shows symbolism as a higher level of philosophy. Returning to the cave was the choice of the prisoner, he felt compelled to spread his new knowledge. Plato’s uses him to represent breaking free from the normal mindset shared. Plato’s argument stands since the cave represents lack of expanding on common knowledge. Even after the prisoner returns to express his findings to others, individuals with philosophies different than the norm is dismissed because of their level above previous things thought of as true.

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’s “Allegory of a Cave” draws many parallels to events and characters in Bradbury’s dystopian novel, Farenheit 451. Chiefly, Plato would disapprove of the style of government in which citizens do not possess the right to think for themselves. Plato’s Cave Theory emphasizes the ability to think and experience new events in order to gain knowledge and learn, which allows the “prisoners” to escape from their binding chains of ignorance and enter a world of enlightenment. A blatant similarity between the two works lies in the characters of Clarisse, Faber, and Granger. These characters have escaped the “cave” of ignorance and have the ability to perceive true reality rather than the technology-induced one forced upon the society. Two

Have you ever judged a person, an object, or even a place by what it looks like on the outside? Or maybe you have judged all of that just by what someone else has told you. Everyone in this world has either judged someone or something in their lifetime or has been judged. Many people out there in the world also believe they know many things and have tried to get the point across to someone and well, they just don’t believe them in any way. They believe there point of view is more right than the other persons and sometimes that can get a little out of hand, depending on who you are dealing with. I guess the major point in all this is to never judge a book by its cover, always learn yourself.

a) What is the role of the philosopher in Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave?’ The role of the philosopher in Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’, is by explaining that people with lesser power or status are not given knowledge and is left in the dark. Examples being government concealing information of top important to the public, doing things behind closed doors without them knowing. Plato was an idealist who had a theory of the forms.

In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Socrates asks Glaucon to imagine a cave where the prisoners have been since their childhood. One of the prisoners breaks free and leaves the cave. The sun blinds him because his eyes were accustomed to the dark. When the prisoner was removed from the cave and brought into the world, the disorientation would be even harsher; the light of the sun would be even more vivid than the fire. But as his eye adjust, the freed prisoner would be able to observe beyond the shadows. As he begins to comprehend his new world, and sees that the sun is the source of life and goes on an intellectual journey where he discovers beauty and meaning. He sees aspects and reflections in the water. I would believe after he spends some

In “Allegory of the Cave,” Plato relates humankind to a group of chained prisoners being held in a dark cave underground. Within this parable, Plato attempts to inspire his audience to explore and expand their minds past what they are told or taught. This piece of literature discusses the fact that people tend to depend too often on the word of their leaders and blindly follow their instruction. This common approach to life causes society to become close-minded and leads them to follow what others do rather than expanding their own knowledge and ways of thinking. In Plato’s opinion, refraining from creating one’s own ideas is similar to being a prisoner in life, never exploring what goes beyond “the cave.”

For as long as there have been humans on Earth, there has been a sense of good and evil. Rules have been created that establish a difference between those things that are right, and those that are wrong. However, even before such rules were organized, humans had an internal sense concerning morals and virtues. The question is then posed, were humans born with these virtues instilled in their minds, or were they taught the difference between right and wrong? Do people discover the morals they were born with, or do they develop them as they grow?

Plato’s allegory of the cave has a simple premise. People chained down, watching shadows in a cave, while the way out is hard to reach. But the simple premise has much deeper meaning. One of the reasons that Plato’s allegory of the cave has been so well received throughout history is that humans are always seeking the truth, mich like the human’s who escape the cave in the allegory. The allegory can be seen as a metaphor for many situations, but for my purposes we will use a very generic explanation of the cave.

At first glance any quote might confuse someone, but as with everything, you must look at the quote and read the quote over and over again. Only then will you begin to fully understand the deeper meaning behind writing, such as quotes. A good example of this is a quote from Allegory of the Cave; “And when he remembered his old habitation, and the wisdom of the den and his fellow-prisoners, do you not suppose that he would felicitate/congratulate himself on the change, and pity them?”

Descriptive ethics, or morals, consist of different people, groups, and societies that have standards. It is the philosophical study of what morality is and how it requires us to behave. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, is his best effort to explain how we should live in society. Defining ‘what is morality?’ can be quite impossible with the many different theories and concepts on what it means to live morally. However, the overall concept of ethics relates to “right” versus “wrong” actions. Ethics is split up into three branches; descriptive, normative, and metaethics. It is the difference between what people actually do, what they should do, or have claims and justifications in a society. Morals is the study of abstract evaluative judgements of human behavior. Morality is the analysis of good versus bad consequences within a situation. Situations are created by our actions. Actions within humans are not socially conditioned rather they are constructed. Without the study of ethics and morality, societies cannot live for long. Aristotle states, “..humans beings are nature political animals, because nature, which does nothing in vain, has equipped them with speech, which enables them to communicate moral concepts such as justice…”. People enjoy having friends and family to make them happy within a society. Unlike animals, we have the ability to reason with each other. In order to do so, we tend to avoid unnecessary harm and premature death. To accomplish this, we want to live in

However one of the prisoners breaks free from the chains and escapes from the cave. His eyes, used to darkness, are blinded by the sun to the point that he wants to return to the cave. Slowly, his eyes adjust and after much suffering and self-realisation the man can finally perceive reality as it actually is.