Annotated Bibliography Of Plato's Cave

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.

Summarize Plato’s Allegory of the Cave article (be sure to include how it describes or relates to the human condition)

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

We first learn about Plato’s cave in book seven of the Republic. In his book, Plato describes a conversation he has with Socrates. He tells Socrates the story of some men who had lived their entire lives in a cave. These men knew nothing beyond what they could see on the cave wall. One day, a man is freed. At first he rejected his new found knowledge of the world but, once he accepted what he learned outside of the cave, he could never go back to his sheltered existence. The cave is an allegory, a story that has a hidden meaning. Plato is attempting to describe the difference between conventional opinion and getting educated. Plato says “compare the effect of education and of the lack of it” (Plato 175).

     "The Allegory of the Cave," by Plato, explains that people experience emotional and intellectual revelations throughout different stages in their lives. This excerpt, from his dialogue The Republic, is a conversation between a philosopher and his pupil. The argument made by this philosopher has been interpreted thousands of times across the world. My own interpretation of this allegory is simple enough as Plato expresses his thoughts as separate stages. The stages, very much like life, are represented by growing realizations and newfound "pains." Therefore, each stage in "The Allegory of the Cave" reveals the relation between the growth of the mind and age.

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.

In the Allegory of the Den written by Plato. In his writing he explains human

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.

Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave,” a depiction of the effects of education and enlightenment in the face of conflicting worldly understandings, arguably represents a continuous theme of world history—the hostility faced by new forms of thinking. In Plato’s “Allegory,” Plato demonstrates the hostility and resentment that individuals sometimes deal with when attempting to share new forms of knowledge through the experiences of the prisoners in the cave. However, this hostility is akin to another major revelation made by Charles Darwin through his trip to the Galapagos Island. The development of Darwin’s theory of evolution, a groundbreaking hypothesis that when accepted would change humanity’s understanding of existence, was met with ignorance

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.

Plato, a famous Greek philosopher who wrote the 'Allegory of the Cave', attempted to answer some of these philosophical questions, most notably about the nature of reality. He tells the 'Allegory of the Cave' as a conversation between his mentor, Socrates, who inspired many of Plato's philosophical theories, and one of Socrates' students, Glaucon. They discuss the meaning of reality and how we as humans can be blinded by the dark shadows of reality. The shadows of the objects in the story represented society’s way of telling us what is real, and what is normal.

The allegory of the cave is regarded as one of the most reputed and acclaimed works by the Greek philosopher Plato in modern literature as well as philosophy. First published and presented in his work known as a Republic (514a–520a), the dialogues that have been used as conversation can be regarded as fictitious as the main conversation takes place between Plato’s brother Glaucon and Socrates. First and foremost, allegorical writing is a type of writing that has two sets of meanings, one which can be assumed as literal and the other one is allegorical. Although this piece was written long before my time, the underlying message it intends to convey is still relevant today. Our society is trapped in a cave.

Plato’s “the Myth of the Cave” represents the differences in the way humans perceive things, and what is real. He puts into symbolic form his view of human condition. In his story, Plato starts by saying there is a big cave connected to the outside world by a passage long enough to prevent any daylight from coming into the cave. Facing the wall, with their backs to the entrance, is a row of prisoners. The limbs of the prisoners are chained together, and they are also fastened by the neck with no way of moving their heads or even seeing one another. All each of them can see is the wall in front of them, and they have been in this situation the entirety of their lives. In the cave behind them is a fire, and unknowing to them a rampart between the fire and them.

The people within Plato's cave are similar to the uneducated people of our world in that they know only one truth and are rigid in their ways. In addition, they are isolated from the educated world be it due to lack of money, geographical location, or lack of power. When I think of the uneducated people of the world I tend to think of those that live in remote locations, underdeveloped locations, or those who still live in villages without the basic amenities we enjoy today like running water and electricity. I feel they are missing out on the basic education we receive during our childhoods. As a result, their worldview is highly localized and they rarely know much beyond their way of life. If these people received a basic education, then I believe their worldview would expand greatly and

I have always been stubbornly convinced that Plato is one of the best Western philosophers of the pen (in my understanding can be compared with the Chinese Confucius). For me, this philosopher's most powerful claim is not the "ideal country" that is widely regarded today as a fictional world, but is also fictitious. To me, I like his cave metaphor, the metaphor says is: a person (more often a group of people) in the cave was chained, tied to the Face to see their own image, and then that is true, and for whom the encouragement or sadness, for a fortuitous reason, was or initiative to dismantle the chain, such an inexplicable access to unfamiliar freedom of people. Suddenly, this person see the glare of the sun, he gradually liked the light, and thus consider the