Shawn Choi AP Art History, Per. 3 Mitchell 11/20/14 The Allegory of the Cave Plato frequently employs –the language of poetry, using myths, parables, and allegories to transmit to his readers the profound truths of his idealistic philosophy which, to quote again from his Seventh Letter, “does not admit of exposition like other branches of knowledge.” The most famous and brilliant example of Plato’s use of this device is the allegory of the cave from the Republic, his description of an ideal state. Its purpose is to illustrate graphically the importance of moving away from the “shadows” of the world of appearances to the world of eternal nonmaterial realities beyond. This is the realm of the Ideas, the highest of which is the Idea of Good, here compared with the sun. Like the sun, it causes all things to exist, to be visible, and to become intelligible.
I admire his belief that one must concentrate more on self-development than on materialistic things and his view that virtues are the most powerful of all possessions. Since Socrates wrote nothing most of what we know of him comes from his disciple Plato, who wrote Socrates’ teachings in works called Dialogues. In this we learn about his creation of the Socratic method, which is a form of debate between individuals based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking. He is best recognized for inventing the teaching practice of pedagogy, wherein a teacher questions a student in a manner that draws out the correct response. I imagine that we would discuss the challenges he faced with the Athenians due to his ideals, which weren’t accepted in that time.
Plato used this analogy to help his less educated contemporaries at the time understand why the physical world of sense is nothing but an illusion and that the intelligible realm is where the truth can be found. In the analogy Plato presents human beings living in a cave, which represents humans inhabiting the sensible realm. In the cave, prisoners are chained up by their necks and legs and are therefore unable to turn around. Since they have been chained up this way for their entire lives they have no experience of life outside the cave. Behind the prisoners is a low wall, a walkway and a large fire that lights up the cave.
Euthyphro In the story Euthyphro by Plato, epistemology plays a huge role. Socrates looks to Euthyphro because of his wisdom on piety and impiety and for the reason that the knowledge that he obtain from Euthyphro would help him fight his case for impiety brought upon by Meletus. Socrates and Euthyphro goes into great depths of questioning and answering which turns to views of being holy and satisfying the Gods. Euthyphro provides an example along with different ways in which to explain piety to Socrates. All attempts to explain piety comes with more unanswered questions to Socrates thus leaving him with more questions to the definite definition of piety.
We trust Nick to tell us the story about the summer and what happened honestly, a narrator who is untrustworthy could make the story less believable and not a clear account of what happened over the summer. We also find out that Nick was like a school therapist or a bartender for the “secret griefs of wild, unknown men.” This hints at the later parts of the novel with Gatsby and
I think because we do not know what death brings that we use consequences even in death and after lives to set guidelines while we are alive. Socrates is using the myth of Er as a way to show that being just is the only way to show that being just is the only way to true happiness. Someone who refuses justice and lives a life as an unjust person, and fallows all his desires no matter who they might hurt, will suffer the consequences in the end. Socrates believes the Gods will love the just and hate the unjust. while the just are alive they seem to be the once who suffer.
This was the first group that ever came close to a gang in Maycomb. Using profane language, loitering around town, and dancing at the Dew Drop Inn & Fishing Co. was enough to disturb the town and make them punish the trouble makers. All of the boys, except Boo, went to Industrial School to straighten up and receive a decent education. Boo, on the other hand, was hastily locked up in his gloomy and isolated house for over 15 years. Being kept away from Maycomb all that time eventually made him go mad.
THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE The following is an excerpt from Plato’s dialogue called “The Republic.” In this section of the dialogue called the “Allegory of the Cave,” Socrates creates an allegory to help illustrate his theory of knowledge. “Now then,” Socrates said, “let me tell you a story about ignorance and education which will explain the condition of man’s nature. Imagine that there is an underground cave with a long entrance open to the light. In this cave men have been chained from birth, fettered by the neck and legs so they cannot move. They cannot turn their heads around; they can only look forward at the wall of the cave.
He is a clear thinker, his appearance, and his symbolic losses throughout the novel. Initially, we could see the evidence of Piggy’s thinking ability at the beginning of this novel Lord of the flies by William Golding. Piggy realizes the boys’ situation and he is thinking about how they are going to survive. He says, “We got to find the others, we got to do something.” It can prove it and he know what should they do when the others don’t. He was thinking at that time and he got the right idea from his mind.
Descartes’ Dream Argument In this paper, I will be discussing Descartes' dream argument for skepticism about knowledge. I find this argument to be both valid, and sound due to its structure and its true premises. I will first explain the argument in simple terms, prove that it is in fact valid and sound, and finally provide counter arguments and then refute them. Descartes wanted to know what true knowledge is by figuring out everything that could be doubted until he was left with something indubitable. He then planned on rebuilding all of his knowledge and beliefs based on this indubitable belief, which would serve as a foundation for all other beliefs.