Plato 's Simile Of The Cave

The metaphor behind Plato's "allegory of the cave" is simple: comfort causes ignorance. In the story, the prisoners have been held captive in the cave their entire lives. In only being able to view the shadows made by the puppeteers, the prisons have accepted this as reality. They have found comfort in this "reality" and refuse to accept the outside world causing ignorance. The allegory and the metaphor behind it can be found in all aspects of our lives. When we leave high school and head off to college or begin our lives, we must move away from relying on others or be left behind in the state of kidulthood. History also speaks on this metaphor in the case of Galileo. Galileo found evidence that contrary to popular belief the earth is not

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.

Prompt: Define Plato 's “Allegory of the Cave”. What is the central message? Is he describing education alone? Where does politics come in?

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

The main idea presented by Plato in his infamous Allegory of the Cave is that the average person's perceptions are severely limited by personal perspective. Plato uses the metaphorical situation of prisoners chained together in a way that limited their visual perception to the shadows projected from behind them onto a wall in front of them. He uses that metaphor to illustrate that perspective determines perceptions and also that once an individual achieves a wider or more accurate perspective, it becomes difficult for him to communicate with those who are still limited to the narrower perspective that he may have once shared with them. Plato meant his allegory to apply to the limitations of perspective attributable to social experiences as well as to the absence of formal education and training, particularly in logical reasoning. Plato believed that logical reasoning is a skill that must be learned through formal training and that without adequate training, it is substantially impossible to understand the logical perspective.

I. INTRODUCTION Plato's Allegory of the Cave describes a situation involving all people seeking knowledge and the truth, unified by this goal. The citizens chained together never see the reality, but instead the shadows being cast by it. Furthermore, they cannot speak with those around them regarding their suspicions, as the chains prevent them from doing so. To a college student, the Allegory of the Cave describes the goal that is sought after from education. College is a place students go to become critical thinkers, to question assumptions, and to master knowledge in order to move towards understanding.

As Socrates is describing the cave and the situation, he stresses the point that the prisoners are completely oblivious as to what is reality as they would know nothing but the shadows casted by items held by the puppeteers, and believe this to be their own reality. This is important to the story as it shows that what we believe is real from the moment we are born is completely wrong based on our own flawed interpretations of reality. The point so far is that it is not what we can see but what we can’t see is what grasps our minds and Plato describes this thinking as “imagination.”

Plato's allegory of the cave, it isn't just the individual who excepts self exile, self policing, and repression. It is culture and those that govern us as well. In the film finding Nemo, Nemo and his shortcomings the lucky flipper is as much is own doing as it is the overprotective father. The Ascension toward freedom is costly and suffering is incurred.

Enlightenment is a signifier for the action or state of obtaining or having obtained spiritual knowledge or insight. Although the specifics of the signified change slightly dependent upon time, place, and person, enlightenment of this type is a concept present in many different civilizations. Plato's The Republic is once such work that deals with the idea of enlightening an uninformed population, particularly in the image of the cave. The image of the cave was central to the Honors Lecture on The Republic that was given by Dr. Michael Palmer.

Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave relates to modern day politics because it addresses the issue of state authorized censorship. The story shows a world in which prisoners are bound and forced to see the world only in the way their masters intend. In today’s society, the media has become the master that guides and controls the masses. Information outlets now regulate the ways in which individuals perceive and respond to the outside world. This is concerning because every source of information has its own biases which can easily influence the consumer and shape his or her opinion, much like the masters do in The Allegory of the Cave. This ties into current governments because nations can use their country’s media to manipulate their populace. For example, a country, like North Korea, that only has state run publications has full command over its people’s knowledge of global

Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” represents how people identify and process everything around us. People rely on their immediate senses to understand and make their own opinion of reality. We have to touch, hear, or smell something in order to believe it. Our biggest misconception come from our sight. The posters and advertisements are real but it does not mean that what’s in them is real as well. The models on the advertisements we know are real but the photo may not be real. There are many tools they use to make the model look exactly how we think she should look. In reality it took a lot of work and effort to make that image seem real. Reality is we all have flaws, but flaws are not advertised. Perfection appears to be reality and the

In “Allegory of a Cave” Plato brings a ‘what if’ situation in which one of the prisoners is released of their shackles and is allowed to remove themselves from the cave. When going past the entranceway, it first distressed him, causing him an almost immediate pain. Going through the entranceway, the shadows which once represented truth will be nothing compared to the reality. This represents how hard it is to transition to the complete form of truth and understatement after being forced to grow accustomed to a blurred sense of truth. Beginning the transition will be a painful process as Plato describes the prisoner’s action claiming, “At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his round neck and walk

Imperialism had many positive effects even when people neglected it. There were different effects in the certain countries which were China, Middle East, Africa and Asia. The one that had the most positive effects were India. The Europeans wanted to modernize these countries and that is what they did. The improved transportation with boats, railroads, and trains and had advantages that involved stronger economies, organized government, powerful militaries, technology and weaponry, advanced medical knowledge,etc.

Platonism, rendered as a proper noun, may be said to be a philosophy of Plato or other philosophical work that were derived from it. In a restrictive sense, Platonism refers to the philosophy that supports the existence of abstract objects, which exist in a realm different both from the sensible external world and from the internal world of consciousness. Platonism holds that there exist such things as abstract objects. An abstract object does not exist in space or time and is entirely non-physical and non-mental. Platonism in this sense is a contemporary view . Platonism was originally expressed in the dialogues of Plato, in which the figure of Socrates is used to express certain teachings that may or may not be similar to the thought of the historical Socrates, Plato’s master. Plato’s

Plato's "Myth of the Cave" is to me such a beautifully accurate philosophical analogy of the ignorant person's journey to and through enlightenment. Plato relates the people in chains facing the back wall of the cave and watching the shadows of reality with most people. Most people do not question the most basic assumptions and beliefs of reality, of human existence, of the universe, and of humans' place in the universe. Since it is all they know, because it is all they have ever been exposed to, they accept it as truth. But, sometimes we are faced with experiences in life that force us to question the very foundations of our existence, and this is what happened with the person forced up into the light at the entrance of the cave. At first, it is very difficult to adjust to the light, or these new ideas.