In his Allegory of the Cave, Plato depicts a world where prisoners are held in a cave for their entire life (Cohen). The puppeteers cast shadows on the wall of the cave, and the prisoners see the shadows as reality. Upon breaking free from the cave, the prisoners come to the realisation that their entire existence has been a lie. They discover how others have controlled their life. This allegory has a great deal of relevance today, particularly in the age of technology. Today's human beings can be likened to the prisoners.… Continue Reading...
present in the works of Plato and Aristotle. The works of Plato that will be covered include Divided Line, the Allegory of the Cave and the Sun. When it comes to Aristotle, the items that will be covered include the ten categories and the significance of substance. The relevant text in question will be Classics of Philosophy as authored by Pojman and Vaughn. While there are some strong similarities between the works and authors cited above, there are also some distinct differences between them.
When it comes to the Divided Line, Plato is writing out a dialog that occurs between Glaucon and Socrates. It is important to note that this… Continue Reading...
Allegory of the Cave explains this best: if man is not oriented towards and drawn to God, who will forever remain in the darkness of the cave thinking flickering shadows the reality. Essentially, that has been the fate of the Latin American Left: having forsaken their Western (and Christian) heritage and adopted secularism and Marxism as their guiding doctrines, they have cut themselves off from the source of knowledge and goodness and dithered away in the caves of their own desires. This in turn has led them to become alienated… Continue Reading...
Allegory of the Cave as something that must be pursued in order to be fully understood.
In conclusion, Plato’s Apology shows Socrates arguing that a better person cannot be harmed by a worse one. First off, the better person is above the lesser one and if he is devoted to the good, nothing can disconnect him from the good. Second, the better person may be “judged” by the worse in this world, but it means nothing for this world is not the last stop: there is another that follows, and… Continue Reading...
