Caves

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. Both the unconditional lover Lantin and the ignorant chained prisoners are confronted with an idea of a seemingly improbable scenario in their respective stories. Although these scenarios are in completely unrelated settings, they both carry and underlying, unfortunate message. For the men in the cave, accepting that the shadows are an illusion

the death. Synopsis: Plato’s allegory of the cave, describes a number of prisoners all chained so that they cannot move and are facing a wall with shadows cast upon it. The shadows are produced by figures passing by a fire, and as this is all they ever see it becomes their reality. However one prisoner escapes and leaves the cave, discovering the world outside and all it’s beauty and wonder. Is it effective & why? The allegory of Plato’s cave is based on the simple premise of the power of

The Clan of the Cave Bear Many people are familiar with the ancient picture of cave-dwellers being the hairy, gruff bully of a man, dressed in animal skins, club in hand as he drags a female back to his cave. This drastic picture is not what one would get while reading Clan of the Cave Bear. The tale is a little more picturesque, but equally cruel, nonetheless; when it comes to the role of male versus female. Beatings, rape and humiliation are just a few of the brutalities dealt out to the females

​“The Matrix” and the story “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato is the reflection of the week. The interpretation of reality and knowledge plays a big part in these stories. You can’t have true knowledge if you don’t have a true reality. Review ​In The Matrix the problem of reality was once you learned the true state of the world, you could never go back. All the images that are in your mind before you knew the real reality of the world is still there after you have opened your eyes. (Wachowski

Plato, Descartes, and The Matrix Having read the synopsis from The Matrix, the excerpt from Plato, The Republic, Book VII, 514A1-518D8 “The Allegory Of The Cave”, and the excerpt from Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, 1641 “Meditation I Of The Things Of Which We May Doubt”, I am able to conclude that there are similarities as well as differences among these readings. Each question the state of reality in which we live. Is our reality a true state of reality or is it a state of mind

their teachers. Students grasp ideas and info from their teachers in order to increase their knowledge. Students take knowledge from their teachers & try to memorize them so that they can increase their knowledge. In the excerpts, “Allegory of the Cave,” and Paulo Freire's “The Banking Concept of Education,” both philosophers believe in freedom in learning. In the article, “Is Google Making us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr states that when people have their freedom with their education with technology

explained through the Allegory of the Cave.

In, The Allegory of the Cave, Plato makes a statement, not about the media, but about how the people are being controlled not by themselves but by someone or something else, “Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is

write anything, but Plato did. Many would wonder if Plato’s writings was Socrates thoughts and questions. The excerpt from The Republic which is one of the famous pieces of philosophy is Socrates offering an image of enlightenment. The Allegory of the Cave is a metaphor for how people experience situations and how we relate to them. This could be with education, politics, and many other things. In the metaphor the philosopher goes through many levels until he reaches the form of good.

Plato's Allegory of the Cave uses many different examples of allegory, which can relate to individuals in society today. In today’s society many individuals are terrified to take risks and explore outside of their comfort zones. The hardest part of the experience is usually deciding whether or not we want to take that risk. The end results are usually worth the risk, in the sense that individuals will have no regrets. On the television show Friends, there is a group of six friends. Chandler and