Allegory of the Cave Essay

He found out that things are not always the way people see or think about them. The apology and allegory of the cave were used to explain the extent, which philosophers can go in trying to gain wisdom…

The Allegory of the Cave of Plato come to mind here (Chaffee, 2010, p.27). In the story, men are chained in a dark cave since childhood and are looking at a blank wall. There is a fire behind them, and the men see only shadows on the wall of what is happening outside the cave. One man is released and leaves the cave. At first he is blinded by the light, and them he begins to see what is real and understands that what he knew before he left the cave is not reality. He returns to the cave and…

Plato describes this in the Allegory of the Cave, a story where prisoners are forced to sit and watch shadows on a cave wall for the entirety of their lives. The shadows are a representation of how everyday people see objects in everyday life around the world. If one of these prisoners, who has only watched shadows, were permitted to leave the cave or escape they would then see the true forms of objects in other forms such as dimension…

In Plato’s allegory of the cave I believe that the cave represents the prisoners home, maybe even their world. The cave is all that the prisoners have ever known since birth. The shadows on the wall represent the outside influences that entertain their minds. The prisoners might symbolize a person’s thinking. For example, when someone grows up thinking something is a certain way they are very hesitant to accept outside views or opinions that might conflict with their beliefs. In a way someones…

Question 1 In the story, The Allegory of the Cave, Plato uses the three prisoners to distinguish between genuine knowledge and right opinion. He uses psychological, epistemological, and metaphysical thoughts to prove it. In The Cave, there are three prisoners tied up and they can only look at the wall in front of them. In that cave, there is a light source behind them producing shadows that appear on that wall. The three play a game; the goal was to guess which shadow will appear next…

It is human nature to be terrified of the unknown. Plato has conflicting views when regarding the existence of certainty and doubt in society. In Plato's The Allegory of the Cave, the cave may represent this superficial reality, everything that the prisoners have knowledge of has been conceived from mere illusions created by shadows. Because the prisoners had no sort of contact with the outside world they have become certain that the shadows were real. In Plato's Euthyphro, Socrates has been…

justice in the city? The question of the reluctance of the governors in Plato’s Republic can also be framed as a question on the return of the philosophers to the cave, in the Allegory of the Cave, and it has long been a subject of Plato’s scholarship. Why should the philosophers, having been enlightened about what is outside the cave, decide to return to it and undertake the…

whether credible or otherwise. Philosophers have struggled to discern a rationale for this aspect of human condition, but Greek philosopher Plato, and English novelist George Orwell have respectively constructed a similar credo in their works "Allegory of the Cave" and "Animal…

In“Allegory of the Cave,” Plato starts by describing a cave whereby men are been locked up since childhood. He says “picture men dwelling in a sort of subterranean cavern with a long entrance open to the light on its entire width.” Then he says the are some men are being chained up unable to look around just to face in front of them the walkway whereby shadows are being casts by the fire light behind them.All the knew and saw are the shadows of objects that are portray on the wall and were…

Plato’s metaphor in his piece, The Allegory of the Cave, compares men confined in a cave to natural ignorance. These men sit restricted to only see shadows dancing on the walls. They believe that they see truth because that is all they know. After setting this stage Plato introduced a character forced to leave the cave. Clearly the light of the world would appear blinding and scary and new, but with time the man would see the…