Plato's Allegory of the Cave
1. I believe that the Allegory of the Cave is representing the ordinary people and intellectuals according to Socrates.
2. The key elements of imagery have to be the the contrast of the shadows and people shown on the cave wall from the fire. Also when the man comes back to talk to the prisoners he stumbles and his voice is altered within the cave so the prisoners take this to mean he is a fool and cannot be trusted.
3. The process of enlightenment and education for the people of the cave is being able to expand their minds, being open to learn from others, and exploring the unknown.
4. The imagery of the shackles and the cave suggests that the world is imperfect and subject to a lot of change without really understanding the 'world' around them. Before enlightenment would be the stage of becoming enlightened, these people are in 'the realm of becoming'. (This idea shared by Ben Dupre)
5. Shackles are only created by the lack of imagination of oneself, so I as a student can do anything and learn as much as I put hard work into the world I live in.
6. The freed prisoner wanted to share the reality and make the perspectives of the prisoners objective, however being that these prisoners couldn't see their old friend they didn't believe someone they thought of as a stranger/fool.
7. These prisoners have a lack of intellectual clarity because of their biased point of view when related to the freed prisoner.
8. The prisoners need to look at different points of view to have a fuller understanding and education of what reality is.
9. I could see in this allegory that there were two distinct perspectives those who could see and those who could not, those who had experienced a greater reality and those who had not.'Things may not be what they appear', is the moral of this story and that is the greatest distinction that can be made for the prisoners and people who are trapped within their own personal caves.
10. We can make two metaphysical assumptions about the world from the allegory, that the world is relative based on your own bias and from that bias you begin to discriminate against others who have see things you might not have. "The problem of universals" within the story is that your reality will be different from others and without taking into consideration the different perspective you are discriminating to the point of suffocating enlightenment.
2. The key elements of imagery have to be the the contrast of the shadows and people shown on the cave wall from the fire. Also when the man comes back to talk to the prisoners he stumbles and his voice is altered within the cave so the prisoners take this to mean he is a fool and cannot be trusted.
3. The process of enlightenment and education for the people of the cave is being able to expand their minds, being open to learn from others, and exploring the unknown.
4. The imagery of the shackles and the cave suggests that the world is imperfect and subject to a lot of change without really understanding the 'world' around them. Before enlightenment would be the stage of becoming enlightened, these people are in 'the realm of becoming'. (This idea shared by Ben Dupre)
5. Shackles are only created by the lack of imagination of oneself, so I as a student can do anything and learn as much as I put hard work into the world I live in.
6. The freed prisoner wanted to share the reality and make the perspectives of the prisoners objective, however being that these prisoners couldn't see their old friend they didn't believe someone they thought of as a stranger/fool.
7. These prisoners have a lack of intellectual clarity because of their biased point of view when related to the freed prisoner.
8. The prisoners need to look at different points of view to have a fuller understanding and education of what reality is.
9. I could see in this allegory that there were two distinct perspectives those who could see and those who could not, those who had experienced a greater reality and those who had not.'Things may not be what they appear', is the moral of this story and that is the greatest distinction that can be made for the prisoners and people who are trapped within their own personal caves.
10. We can make two metaphysical assumptions about the world from the allegory, that the world is relative based on your own bias and from that bias you begin to discriminate against others who have see things you might not have. "The problem of universals" within the story is that your reality will be different from others and without taking into consideration the different perspective you are discriminating to the point of suffocating enlightenment.
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