Plato's Cave And Marx

After the prisoner has gained new found knowledge, he feels pity for those who are still imprisoned and unaware of the world around them. He knows now that their skills and perceptions are useless in the real world. Plato says “…when he remembered his old habitation, and the wisdom of the den and his fellow prisoners, do you not suppose that he would felicitate himself on the change, and pity them?” (p. 3). It is unfortunate that most people are unable to leave the cave. However, those who do have the privilege of learning the truth have an obligation to go back and share with those who remain in darkness - to share with them as much truth as they are capable of understanding. “…before his eyes had become steady would he not be ridiculous? Men would say of him that up he

Plato describes this scary like cave in Allegory of the Cave. he describes the world as if there are alot of undisclosed things out there. From the day we were born we were told so many things whether they are true or not. We are so occupied into day’s society that we can’t see what truly is right and wrong. Today there is the media, military, government, school, work, shops , food, and so many other things that keep us occupied from the truth. We are even more hidden from the truth today than they were thousands of years ago. We the people are almost like the prisoners and the government, media or the military play the shadows and puppeteers. They control our life and how we act unless we break free and walk out of the cave. Once we break

Many people in today's world use revenge to satisfy their troubles or situations they are in. Often times people desire revenge so bad that it ends up driving them crazy. In the short story, ¨The Cask of Amontillado¨ by Edgar Allan Poe, this situation is displayed perfectly. A character by the name Fortunato triggered Montresor, which resulted in him developing a deeply thought out murder plan. This is why the theme, revenge can drive a person crazy, fits with this short story. This theme works because the author shows it through foreshadowing, verbal irony, and indirect characterization.

Because of how we live, true reality is not obvious to most of us. However, we mistake what we see and hear for reality and truth. This is the basic premise for Plato抯 Allegory of the Cave, in which prisoners sit in a cave, chained down, watching images cast on the wall in front of them. They accept these views as reality and they are unable to grasp their overall situation: the cave and images are a ruse, a mere shadow show orchestrated for them by unseen men. At some point, a prisoner is set free and is forced to see the situation inside the cave. Initially, one does not want to give up the security of his or her familiar reality; the person has to be dragged past the fire and up the entranceway. This is a

There are few core values that both scholars and laymen alike can agree serve as integral components to understanding human existence. While these values are often broad in nature, they help build the fundamental foundations to answer common existential questions that plague mankind. One of the most prominent core values that is frequently discussed by both professionals in academic circles and inquisitive minds in casual conversations is the value of truth. Truth appears to be a simple and objective concept on the surface; however, its breadth is vast and can create numerous sub-discussions on the nature of humanity and existence. Many philosophers have expounded in the nature of truth: what it is, what it means in relation to humanity, and how understanding the essence of truth can aid in the quest to answer mankind 's existential questions. One of the most famous allegorical tales that pontificates on the reality of truth is Plato 's The Cave, using the story of two chained characters forced to understand their reality based on mere shadows of images passing through a fire behind them. This paper seeks to explode Plato 's ideas of truth in The Cave, asking questions on truth 's universal value, the absolute nature of truth, and how truth can be both a problematic and useful value when applied to society at large.

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

In Plato’s book, the Republic, in a story that the ancient Greek philosopher shows to his student Glaucon, by using an allegory of peoples that are condemned to live in a cave for all their lives, the philosopher shows how people can be deceived by many images that they see from the distance and when they have not enough information to judge them. The life of the people who lived in the communist Eastern Europe during the second half of the twentieth century resembled very much with Plato’s prisoners. Isolated from the rest of the world, often misinformed about what was going on behind the iron curtain, they were deprived from understanding what was going on with the rest

In the 1960 she started her career at Columbia Records , later on she then signed with Atlantic Records in 1967. Franklin gain the title “The Queen of Soul” , she gain most of her success through songs such as “Respect”, “You make me feel like a natural Woman”, “I say a Little Prayer”, “Think”, “Chain of fools”, “Natural Woman”, “I never loved a Man”.

Because of how we live, true reality is not obvious to most of us. However, we mistake what we see and hear for reality and truth. This is the basic premise for Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which prisoners sit in a cave, chained down, watching images cast on the wall in front of them. They accept these views as reality and they are unable to grasp their overall situation: the cave and images are a ruse, a mere shadow show orchestrated for them by unseen men. At some point, a prisoner is set free and is forced to see the situation inside the cave. Initially, one does not want to give up the security of his or her familiar reality; the person has to be dragged past the fire and up the entranceway. This is a difficult

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.

Over the years, humans have committed crimes so heinous that incarceration would, arguably, not suffice as a justified punishment. These crimes are responsible for the proposal of “The Death Penalty”, which is when execution becomes the verdict after a criminal case. Some of the methods used in the past have been deemed cruel and unusual, whereas others have been justified based on overwhelming evidence of the crime committed. The most common method in modern society would be death by Lethal Injection, however, methods differ by state. For example, in the state of Utah, death by Firing Squad is still an option to convicts. This lethal method is administered in a total of 17 states. Although the person convicted is being executed, the method must still be as humane as possible, regardless of the crime. States have certain regulations for the method they use, but if it is compromised, an alternative method will be chosen by default. Alternatives could include methods such as Death by Hanging, The Electric Chair, The Gas Chamber or death by Firing Squad. Some areas of the justice system view these alternatives as barbaric or inhumane.

For thousands of years man has tried to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the world. The Matrix movie conveys what man has been trying to do in a cinematic masterpiece. The creator’s main influences to making The Matrix were Karl Marx and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave (Who Inspired). Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto tries to highlight the social inequalities that have occurred during the industrial revolution between man and machine while Plato’s Allegory of the Cave tries to help inform people that they need to become more self-aware of their oppressors. The film The Matrix combines these two ideas into one experience.

Dantes’s actions following his escape from prison could be seen as his attempt to serve justice that the system failed in doing. His actions, however, may be a better representation of revenge. In prison, Dantes meets Abbe Faria, another prisoner. They meet through a hole that Faria created in the wall between their cells thinking he was digging to the outside of the prison to escape. Dantes recounts to the Abbe how he came to be in the prison, and the Abbe brings to light the idea that maybe it was a plot that put Dantes there. After he helps Dante to realize this, the Abbe comes to regret it: “‘I regret having helped you in your investigation and said what I did to you … Because I have insinuated a feeling into your heart that was not previously

In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato uses this to describe how we learn and what the effect of it is on our nature. Along with Socrates, this theory is also associated with the Forms (or ideas) and that these Forms are the true definition of real knowledge (Appearance). The Cave theory also shows that the beginning of the history of philosophy was very two sided. The Allegory of the Cave is divided into three sections: Being inside the cave, leaving the cave, and returning to the cave (Appearance).

Marx examines human beings from the perspective of social practices and social relationships. In his view, human nature incorporates both natural attributes and social attributes, and human characters are not solely shaped by natural attributes but are shaped by the unity of individuals and social activities, which refers to the effect of the interrelationships between human themselves and social activities.