The text is formatted as a dialogue between Plato and his brother, Glaucon. Within this conversation, they discuss what would happen if a group of prisoners realized the world they were watching was a lie.
Plato uses this allegory as a way to discuss the deceptive appearances of things we see in the real world. Through it, he encourages people to instead focus on the abstract realm of ideas. In a literal sense, a movie is just a series of images. But digging deeper, they present unique ideas and themes that we can take with us into the real world. To a prisoner in the cave, Parasite is a film about a family who gets jobs working for another family.
A person has to recognize everything up until this point in their life has been a lie. What if when they finally recognize the lie, they resort to violent revolution? Watch this terrifying scene and see what similarities you can find between it and the allegory. The scene holds many direct correlations with the "Allegory of the Cave. This is a direct reference to the fire in the cave, casting shadows for the prisoners to view.
Red also makes several references to shadows. Specifically, how they are the shadows to the regular family. Us could almost be viewed as an alternative version of the allegory. Namely, what if the prisoner returned to the cave and all of the other prisoners wanted to follow him out? They saw other people living normal lives, making them angry. The tethered hold hands in the sun, leaving destruction in their wake. It's a somewhat pessimistic view of the cave allegory, but what if there were a story that looked on it more positively.
Enter The Lego Movie. Emmet discovers they were just being played with by a boy and his dad. But in fact the Allegory of the cave remains relevant and moving for many people in our own time. It is an allegory of sleep and waking of our time as asleep in the dark of the cave and needing to awake to a clear vision of the world.
It is an allegory of our time as needing to be born again, to emerge from the darkness of corruption into the light of truth and morality. It is an educational allegory of our time as needing to ascend through stages of education from the darkness of intellectual and moral confusion in its everyday beliefs, to the light of true knowledge and value.
It is a religious allegory of Christian conversion from the cave of self love and self gratification to the love of God and devotion to the truth. The allegory of the cave may be viewed as a devastating criticism of our everyday lives as being in bondage to superficialities and also of much of the sins of our time.
It is of course a political allegory. The life in the cave is the life of politics. You missed the point Dan. This story can be interpreted in many ways. Whether you view it from a religious, philosophical, or other perspective, it can mean different things.
Some people may relate this story to religious beliefs, while others may think of an entirely different circumstance, such as social problems. In the end, no matter how you perceive it or what you may relate it to, this story is representing enlightenment from the simplicity that was previously known and the ignorance and distrust of those who are still oblivious.
This means that any such religious allusions are not impossible, but, rather, just not very likely. The bottom line is that the prisoners should never have committed a crime to begin with or else they would already have had a real normal reality instead of the demented one they have created for themselves by violating the law. Prisoners belong in prison usually.
The definition of prisoner is a person deprived of liberty and kept under involuntary restraint, confinement, or custody. Ouch George! Is this your personal experience? Anything or anyone can be guilty of that. Lots of things that keep people in the dark — I think. The reason why dumb people do not trust philosophers is that they are too lazy to keep their minds working. The contrast that Plato refers to is between empirical knowledge that has to be filtered through our subjective perception and philosophical argument that does not.
For example; how can we be sure that your perception of the colour green is the same as mine? We cannot. However the philosophical observation that this is the case is a pure, ultimate piece of knowledge.
Socrates made it simple, our senses deceive and broke us from perceiving reality as it is. Thus, it is only logic and rational that is reliable. Mental liberation is a catchy phrase. What is the self that witnesses thought and emotion? Where is the self that witnesses seas of human time?
It is more than mental. Philosophy is life, to ignore the journey to search for the truth is equally to choose darkness or death. The truth will set you free …. Perhaps it simply means that our minds are imprisioned by our life experiences, represented by the prisoners in the cave.
The persons in the cave are in their comfort zone. This is true of every group or community. They do not accept of believe in an other possibility. So for me the myth is also the effect of education, and the lack of it. Everything is made up. The reality of our lives is that we should be all just animals looking for food and shelter and ultimately survive just like Apes Unfortunately or fortunately we figured out how to communicate verbally with one another and tried to put logic to our new world.
So we made up the fact that words,god,money,governments,banks,schools,Royals etc etc actually exist. In realty none of our world has to exist. We only need to look for food and find shelter. Of course our senses can deceive us. He thinks that it is better to be the slave in the outer world rather than being the king inside the cave. If he attempts to persuade the people inside the cave saying that the outer world is the real world, and the cave world is unreal, his ignorant friends kill him.
The allegory of the cave has also allegorical meaning because so many symbolic suggestions are used in this writings. The dark cave symbolically suggests the contemporary world of ignorance and the chained people symbolize ignorant people in this ignorant world.
The raised wall symbolizes the limitation of our thinking and the shadow symbolically suggest the world of sensory perception which Plato considers an illusion.
In his opinion, the appearance is false and reality is somewhere, which we cannot see. Plato as an ideal philosopher says that the appearing world is just the imitation or photocopy of the real world. The shadows represent such photocopy and, the reality is possible to know with the spiritual knowledge. The chains symbolize our limitation in this material world so that we cannot know the reality to know reality; we have to break the material world.
The outer world of the light symbolically suggests the world of spiritual reality, which we achieve by breaking the chains that are used to tie us. The dazzling of our eyes for the first time symbolizes difficulty of denies the material world.
The second time dazzling of the eyes symbolizes our difficulty to accept ignorance after knowing the reality. Hence, in allegory of the cave Plato has given a criticism over our limited existence in the material world.
In Allegory of the cave, Plato has also described about our perception. He says that there are two types of perception: sensory perception and spiritual perception. Sensory perception is the world of appearance, which we perceive, with the help of our sensory organs.
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