Professor Nina Askary Langaroudy
English GLL 121 CA
20 July 2010
‘The Allegory Of The Cave’ is a story that demonstrates how humans are afraid of change and what they do not know. In this work, Plato suggests a situation in which men are living in an underground cave. The one entrance is located near the top, a burning fire casts shadow. The men of the cave are chained so that they can only see the wall and cannot turn around. When objects pass by it creates a shadow on the wall. The shadows are the only thing they can see and therefore is the only thing they know to exist. At some point for the first time one of them escapes from the cave the first thing he comes out of the cave he’s been blinded by the sun the first reaction is that he’s fearful there’s light everywhere because of the total darkness in the cave. Last, he can look at the sun itself. The sun represents good, which for Socrates is truth/knowledge. Basking in the sun, the prisoner sees truth. He realizes that life in the cave was an illusion.
He moves around he sees trees, rivers, lakes. the sun starts set it become dark and he sees the moon for the first time he’s sees the shadow of the moon on the lake it looks like silver he’s so taken over of the beauty of what is out there that life is just not by being in a dark cave that there’s a lot more in to life than just working all day like a slave being chained and unable to see the beauty of the sun or any of these beauty that’s out there. He comes back in to tell the others about what he saw. The other men think he is foolish and plan to kill him.
The Term Paper on In The Shadow Of Man
In this paper I am going to discuss how anthropology is a science. I am also going to explain how Jane Goodall is a scientist with her works with chimpanzees, and how that is known as primatology. I will also look at the order primates in correspondence with Jane Goodalls book on primates, specifically the chimpanzee. Anthropology is a science; it has four aspects in which you can study. ...
The world we live in is like the cave because the shadows represent the objects we perceive to be true in our world. We perceive that the things we see are actually what they are, however what we perceive to be true is not how things truly exist and what we see, much like the shadows, are not how things truly are. Even worse, we never really see each other we are in the dark. We do not see things how they truly are because we are too preoccupied with our senses and perceptions to understand the true nature of things. We can describe the shadows we see on the wall, but we never turn our heads around to see where the light comes from. The people see the shadows of, for example, a jar, and believe that the shadow is actually the jar and what the jar actually looks like is the shadow. For example, when you know two different sides of an argument you have a little better understanding of how it actually took place. People today are like the people of the cave because we are chained by our senses to what we perceive to be or either sees the true. The darkness is a metaphor for our eyes not being able to see in the dark how things physically are because sight is a sense that we cannot rely on to see the truth even in the light. It is true that when we can see things from two different perspectives we have a little better perception of how they truly exist.
Today a leading cause of stress is change; a change in your job, lifestyle can cause major stress. Many Americans are living longer and discovering, as a result, that the learning process can never really be allowed to stop. To be successful or sometimes even just to maintain a comfortable life, one must adapt to the rapidly changing order. Acknowledging that there is more that needs knowing and embarking on new educational journeys requires courage, due to man’s inherent nature of fear. Persons of the best natures must be required to attain a more complete knowledge, and those of this more complete education must expose the others to the realities. Plato places these slave characters in a position that you cannot think for yourself everything has to be robotic and automatic the guys in the caves try to find easy ways but not knowing that the easy way involves thinking. What the slaves call easy is then times harder. “He will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows” (Plato 1).
The Term Paper on Things Happy People Do Differently
I’d always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life. ” -Dan Millman (author of The Way of the ...
When the slaves came out of the cave they were fearful there’s light everywhere, finally they adjust to it and they realized that they’re going to be okay. His friends where angry at him because they say now who’s going to provide food for us. Food was always proved. And he says don’t worry you guys will pick berries and shows them for now until we find the other means of survivals. They don’t want to do that they say that’s work and we don’t know how to do this, let’s go back to the cave. They rather go back in to the cave and be chained with darkness with not seeing the sun the moon. The reason they wanted to go back in the cave because if you’re out of the cave in order to survive you have to think. For them thinking is very hard and there no use to it they don’t know what thinking is for example, What happens if a tighter come and attacks them they would have the ability to think what to do next where to hide and what should be done to avoid it. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. If you continue to look for truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better and will realize that whatever you were doing seemed so dim and hard. And what you’re doing now seems to be filled with brightness and life.
Professor Nina Askary Langaroudy
English GLL 121 CA
20 July 2010
Works Cited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/22696/platos_allegory_of_the_cave_analysis.html
http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/platform.htm
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http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/platoscave.html
‘The Allegory of the Cave’ by Plato
Professor Nina Askary Langaroudy
English GLL 121 CA
11 July 2010
The Essay on Plato’s “The allegory of the Cave”
Plato’s “The allegory of the Cave” addresses so many different areas of philosophy including, epistemology, metaphysics, asceticism, ethics, etc. In his allegory it is important to seek what Plato is trying to accomplish through locating his rhetorical devices, his tone, his position and arguments, in order to develop meaning to his allegory. Plato’s philosophies include education, interaction, ...
