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    The “Cave” was told as an allegory, a story that is compared to something similar, but unstated. The “Cave” represents people who think knowledge comes from experience in the world. This is known as empirical evidence. In the cave believers of this type of evidence believe that they are trapped in some type of cave. This cave that they are trapped in this cave of misunderstanding. The shadows are seen as those who believe in this type of evidence and that it guarantees knowledge. If what you see

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    In “Allegory of a Cave”, Plato has the reader imagine a cave in which people are confined to only being able to look at the walls. In this cave, they can see shadows which are the extent to their knowledge of the outside world. He explains how to them this is their world and what they see and hear is all that they can know, so he then explains how if one man were to escape he will be able to truly see how great the world actually is. Moreover, as he returns to the cave everyone else calls him a liar

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    The Allegory of the Cave

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    man follow the law, and how do implications of society affect our behavior. The most interesting topic from the Republic is from Book VII, the allegory of the cave. With the allegory of the cave Plato gives us the power to break the chains that bind us down and leads us to see the light. In the allegory of the cave Plato sets the scene with humans in a cave that have been chained since childhood so they are restricted from moving and looking around the room. These people only see the shadows casted

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    The Allegory Of The Cave

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    his most intricate, yet his most important figure: the Allegory of the Cave. Socrates calls on the interlocutors to imagine a dimly lit cave in which a group of prisoners are chained behind a wall in such a way that they cannot move and are forced to stare at a wall all day. Thanks to a small fire, the prisoners are able to see the shadows of their imprisoners and images their imprisoners projected on the wall. Having always been in the cave, the prisoners believe the shadows are true; similarly

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    person on the face of this earth that can provide a perfect explanation as to how each and every human develops their own personal morals. Plato and Lawrence Kohlberg attempt to take a crack at this age-old mystery through their texts, the Allegory of the Cave and the Stages of Moral Development. One of these writers tells a story as to give an explanation and another provides steps or levels. After diagnosing both these works of art it is difficult pin point their stances as to why society struggles

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    The Allegory of the Cave

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    Introduction: An allegory is a kind of story in which writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface story. One of the most important allegories ever to be gifted to humankind is Allegory of the Cave. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is one of the most potent and pregnant of allegories that describe human condition in both its fallen and risen states. The Allegory of the Cave is Plato's explanation of the education of the soul toward enlightenment. It is also known as the Analogy of the Cave, Plato's

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    The Allegory Of The Cave

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    Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, and “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato are both allegories. A story, poem or picture that's possibly interpreted to reveal a hidden message is allegory's definition. The message usually conveys a moral, religious, or political meaning. Both works convey a deeper meaning beyond their concrete story. “The Allegory of the Cave” and Jonathan Livingston Seagull show similarities and differences in their symbols. “The Myth of the Cave” symbolizes false knowledge is due to

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    Allegory Of The Cave

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    The Allegory of The cave illustrates the learning process of gain true knowledge. Plato uses a man leaving a cave to face reality to illustrate this learning process. From this allegory, we learn the difficulties of gaining knowledge. Firstly, The Allegory of The Cave illustrates the different degrees of learning. It represents the learning process all the way from ignorance to absolute truth. The Allegory illustrates this by using a few men who have lived in a cave their whole lives, and who are

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    the Allegory of the Cave there are prisoners are chained up together in which they are all facing the back wall. There is a firing behind the prisoners and the only thing that they can see are the shadows of the people behind them. The fire casts shadows on the wall so this is the only thing that they see. Their entire lives have been based on these shadows on the wall. These prisoners have been chained up since birth, so what they see on the walls is all they know. In the Allegory of the Cave, they

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    Although The Allegory of the Cave was mentioned in relation to the Republic, Plato also used it to describe “the divided line” and being and becoming. In describing and explaining the Divided Line, Plato creates an analogy or allegory to describe his Theory of Forms and his ideals of Being and Becoming (Allegory of the Cave). To do so he created his famous Allegory of the Cave. It begins in a dark cave in which prisoners have been bound to their entire lives. Being bound to this cave, they have been

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