Plato's Republic: The Allegory Of The Cave

The Allegory of the Cave, also know as The Analogy of the Cave, Plato's Cave or Parable of the Cave is presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work “The Republic “ as a theory concerning the perceptions of human kind and compares the effects of education to the lack of education on our observations. The passage is written as dialogue between Plato’s brother Glaucon and his teacher Socrates.

In Plato’s allegory, he begins with a set of three people, prisoners of the cave that have never seen anything other than what the cave and their binding allows. “The prisoners are tied to some rocks, their arms and legs bound and their head is tied so that they cannot look at anything but the stonewall in front of them” ("The Simile of the Cave." Republic, 1974). What they are able to see is shadows of a fire and those people or animals- free to the

When people are trapped in a place with no outside influence, its hard to have different forms of ideas and opinions because they are all used in the same way of thinking. Glaucon relates the people he sees in the cave to prisoners. (2006). The idea that these humans sitting down are imprisoned relates to when people are imprisoned, they aren't able to see the world as someone who is free. In Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave" Socrates brings up the concept where if someone trapped in the cave was to look into the light will it be too painful and make them want to look away.

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.

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 cave is underground and dark; it consists of human beings who have been living down there since childhood. These people are almost like prisoners since

Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave suggests that people are just prisoners in a cave and the as others and objects periodically pass by the prisoner can only see the shadows which eventually become their reality. Since that is all that they know the shadows are their truth and what is real. Every so often one of the prisoners freed and is now able to go and venture out in the world and to their surprise finds that the shadows are not what was real. When they return to the cave to enlighten their fellow prisoners they are usually met with hostile responses.

In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, there are these prisoners that live in a cave and have never seen any natural sunlight. They can only see shadows of things displayed on the wall by the light coming from the fire. The prisoners get happy and interested by the shadows they see. The shadows could be of humans, objects, animals, or even plants. They see them as real, whereas, we see them as just shadows. One day, a prisoner goes out into the real world. He is blinded by the sunlight, so after his eyes adjust, he realizes that the shadows that were being shown in the cave aren’t actually real and that all the real objects are outside of the cave. Objects like plants, colors of what the animals look like, animals, tree, and even stars. Plato puts it as, “Previously he had been looking

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and Maupassant’s The False Gems both illustrate unique individuals that refuse to seek the truth, but do so with different motives.

After reading Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” we can come to the conclusion that all that in today’s society is consider reality is just shadows. The true values of humanity have been forgotten, all we have are shadows. We think that true happiness is based on having material things. The shadows that we see today are: social media, wealth, greed, power. Since we are born we are surrounded by ideas of what is expected of us. As Plato’s Allegory observed, “Prisoners who have been chained since childhood” (Plato, pars. 1-2). Our children are raised with pictures of photo-shopped models, billboards of the latest car model, commercials of the season trends, and parents who only care about the material things. We are living in a society where

Allegory of the Cave, is a popular work of Plato. In the excerpt, Plato gives his take on what exactly does it mean to be in the “reality.” Throughout the excerpt, Socrates explains to Glaucon about a cave. The inhabitants of the cave have never seen the day of light. Literally. The people in the cave are prisoners, they are bounded by chains and shackles. They have no idea about the “real” world. The only thing they can see are shadows cast by the fire in the center of the cave. They believe these shadows are real, in truth, they are not. To me, I think the cave represents our mentality as human beings. We only know what is true because we were taught that it is. Not that we have pondered the thought of it really being that way, it's just because we learn by following. On the other

This paper discussed The Allegory of The Cave in Plato's Republic, and tries to unfold the messages Plato wishes to convey with regard to his conception of reality, knowledge and education.

The allegory of the cave is described as a prison that holds three men as captives. These men are tied down by their limbs and heads, disabling them from seeing anything but the shadows right in front of them. These prisoners have been in this cave their whole lives and have never seen the outside world. The connotations of the cave serve as a metaphor for humanities flawed perception of the world. The ignorance of man is the result of believing that all

The “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato represents the differences in the way we perceive reality and what we believe is real. In his story, Plato starts by saying that in a cave, there are prisoners chained down and are forced to look at a wall. The prisoners are unable to turn their heads to see what is going on behind them and are completely bound to the floor. Behind the prisoners, puppeteers hide and cast shadows on the wall in line with the prisoners’ sight, thus giving the prisoners their only sense of reality. What happens in the passage is not told from the prisoners’ point of view but is actually a conversation held between Socrates and Glaucon (Plato’s brother).

Everyday something either evolving, progressing, being modified or discovered. “The Myth of The cave” is a story Plato tells in “The Republic”. In summary he describes how a prisoner who lived m a underground cave his whole life was one day brought out after many years, then was sent back with the other prisoners. It describes how it would feel I went a long time without learning and interacting with everyday life.