The prisoner would then be dragged out of the cave against his will and have the sunlight forced upon him .He would find the sunlight painful and would not be able to take anything in until he adjusted to the light. After he had adjusted he would firstly be able to see the shadows of things, then
For all of the prisoner’s lives they have known of a wall and a small fire. It was until they were freed that they realized there was so much more to life than just that cave. Similar to when we are asleep in a dark room and someone rudely turns on the light and it pains our eyes is how the prisoners felt when they first saw sunlight. Once the prisoner became accustomed to this new light, he went back to tell the other prisoners of the new world he had been acquainted with. The other prisoners could not understand his fascination with this sort of outside world he had gone into.
These prison guards claimed that they would have never known they could be capable of such aggressive and cruel behavior. They claimed that their sense of morals would normally prevent them from such behavior. However, through cognitive dissonance, their change of environment challenged their initial set of morals. When assigned these new roles, the
Automatically the prisoners start to see little images and start to give it names, but there is a smart prisoners among them and he is the taken out of the cave; he then realizes that everything he thought was real was now nothing. He goes back to the other prisoners to show them what the truth really is and what a tree really looks like but they do not understand because they have not seen. Plato used Socrates to describe one of his main points in philosophy, senses can not be trusted and everything is related to logic and reasoning. A brief example being people see and experience and automatically think that what they have experienced was indeed the truth, such as the universe, because we can not see what is above and beyond we set our minds in our world much like the cave. Plato believes that sometimes things can not be understood by observation but by logic and meaning having a clearer picture on things.
Rebecca Barton Latin IV Essay 9/21/13 Period 5 Pandora’s Box People have always wanted to know why things happen in the world the way they do. They did not have much understanding of how the world works, but they still wanted to know, just as we do to this day. Human curiosity always asks why, and human creativity finds ways of giving an answer. Pandora’s box is a myth from Greek mythology commonly referred to as an origins myth, a myth that attempts to explain the beginning of something. When Pandora opened the jar given to her by the Gods, and all the evils flew into the air, only hope remained.
Odysseus was the first one to realize that if they had killed the Cyclops they would be trapped in the cave forever. “If we kill him now, we may be trapped inside this cave forever.” (Homer 7) Odysseus knows that actions always have positives and negatives, so he thought of the harm that would create if he killed the Cyclops so he waited. As Odysseus’s intelligence grows his knowledge of speech grows too. When the Cyclops, Polyphemus, asks Odysseus his name, he replied in a very sneaky, intelligent way. “Nobody, that is the name my father gave me: Nobody.” (Homer 8) Odysseus was able to
Once prisons can start to reform prisoners to stop those prisoners who like to keep coming back alot of things can change. They need to start
We know what beauty and justice is without having experienced it in perfect Form so to Plato knowledge was a recollection of what our souls already knew while in the perfect external realm In the allegory of the cave is this. In the cave there a humans who have been chained at the head and the legs so as to only see the wall in which they are placed. The fire behind these figures creates shadows or illusions which the prisoners see as their reality. The objects cast on the wall are projected by people walking past with certain objects such as puppets. They have been in this state since they were born so they have grown into their ignorance.
Much of what Socrates uses to defend himself proves otherwise; this is proven in the story of the Oracle from Delphi. What does Socrates think of the gods? Socrates seems to contradict himself on several occasions on this issue. As Socrates defends his charge of atheism proposed by his accusers, he is able to prove to one of his accusers, Meletus, that he believes in the gods. In this essay I will prove that Socrates is in fact not a religious person, but he has had to act religious all his life as so he wouldn’t ever be accused for something such as this and uses this act to completely disprove the accusations made against him.
For Oedipus, ignorance would have been bliss. In the case of Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’, once the prisoner is released he is forced to look upon the fire and objects that were his reality. He realizes these new images in front of him are now the accepted forms of reality. Plato describes the vision of the real truth in one way to the prisoners. Thus, they do not realize that they are looking at shadows on a wall and that there is an entire world outside the cave for them to experience.