In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Plato writes about how people are often fooled and lead astray from the truth by a ruler or, in Plato’s cave, the “puppeteers”. In prompt number one, someone is saying that “Gen Y” have become prisoners to technology, saying how, instead of using technological devices for information and enlightenment, they are using it for communication purposes. We know from Socrates’ example about the cave that in order to know the truth, the “prisoners” must break free from their
beginning of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” the cave was created to represent a prison however, when thinking about prisons, chains and bars are the first things we think of. The reason being, we believe at this moment the prison is a physical object preventing the captives from moving. When the cave, in actuality, is their brains, the ignorance they allow themselves to hold onto. As captives, they are not being held this way by others, but rather by themselves. They allow their ignorance to create
“Allegory of the Cave” by Plato is a story with a plethora of meanings. It paints a story about the nature of humans’ ignorance and enlightenment. It encourages human beings to reflect and question on what they know or believe. The allegory brought a whole new perspective to the past, present, and future; providing awareness of things that I can relate to and reflect upon the story. The “Allegory of the Cave” is a journey to become enlightened by reality, which I experienced when I moved to the United
the intelligible and visible world is explored in Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” and in Andy and Lana Wachowski’s film The Matrix in order to highlight the complex realities in which the world is centered around; our lives are merely defined by our changing surrounds and senses, while this perception of the form of the good lies in the eternal, unchanging world. In “The Allegory of the Cave”, Plato uses prisoners trapped in a dark, jailed cave to show that the process of enlightenment is not as
Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” is used to describe the disconnect between the things we perceive as real and the actual reality. Plato’s allegory serves to prove how people come to be trapped in this cave where they are not able to recognize and distinguish between the truth because they can only see the shadows of what they have come to believe in. Many are chained up which prohibits them from finding out what the truth actually is. Plato seeks to convince his audience in getting his point across
should take to cover these aspects in order to lead a successful life. Plato addresses nearly every realm of philosophy, stretching from the epistemological to the metaphysical in various ways. He uses his epistemological analysis with the Allegory of the Cave to define learning. He addresses existence through his metaphysical examination of the Forms and highlights how these hypotheses hold implications on ethical and political standings. With these features, Plato displays how the
In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, he emphasizes that the forms and shadows the senses perceive are contrary to the reality and to what the mind sees. The strength of this allegory provide a great effect on the philosophical perspective of people. However, it does not imply that weaknesses are not included. Plato, through Socrates, discusses the world of senses, the people who philosophically resembles the prisoners, and the similitude between the cave and the world people know. Plato’s use of hypothetical
the world he has been lived in was not real? Both Plato’s cave allegory and The Matrix movie describe the same story and give the same answer. One must open his eyes and mind with brave, to suffer the pain of dazzle, to see through the illusion, and thus to reach the truth. There’s not one certain side that people are supposed to agree with, although in most circumstances people make decisions with regard to benefit and habit. In Plato’s cave allegory, no matter how bright the man sees outside the den
best illustrated in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” In this text, Plato’s ideal society is achieved through human enlightenment. Using dialogue between his brother, Glaucon and his mentor, Socrates, Plato is “compar[ing] our nature in respect of education” and the lack of it to nature. Through this dialogue, Plato incorporates his personal thoughts into the histories he wrote to construct a dialectic that demonstrated how this problem of a lack of education or relative ignorance could be fulfilled
In the Allegory of the Cave Plato's philosophical views can be used to describe his some major philosophical questions. The Allegory of the Cave is a story about prisoners in a cave who have never experienced anything besides watching shadows on a wall. The prisoners assumed that the shadows on the wall were the whole of the reality. One prisoner is freed and sees that the images on the wall that he has been staring at his entire life is not real. He is then let out of the cave and is shown