However it is reachable by passing through different limitations His Both Plato and Descartes argue that humans are trapped by wrong assumptions and beliefs. In his essay Allegory of The Cave, Plato proves how people are fooled to believe in wrong ideas. He uses a cave to present the world of sight, in which people are prisoners since the day they were born. The people in the cave cannot see the light, neither each other’s, because their hands and neck are chained and they cannot move. These people only see what in front of them is.
Some of the bearers speak and others are silent, as you might expect.” “I see,” said Glaucon [Socrates’ student]. “Truly a strange place and strange sort of people.” “Actually, they are just like ourselves.” Socrates explained, “What do you think these chained men would know of themselves or each other or anything else? They will know only the shadows which the firelight casts on the opposite wall of the cave.” “They could not know anything else if they were chained so that they could never turn their heads,” exclaimed Glaucon. “True;; and what about the things being held above the wall? Would not they only know the shadows of these things?” asked Socrates.
Sometimes animals, birds, people and other objects passed by the entrance of the cave casting a shadow on the wall inside the cave. The prisoners could see the shadows on the wall and mistakenly viewed them as reality. However, one prisoner broke free from the chains and escaped from the cave. When he reached the outside, he was distressed and blinded by the sunlight as he had never seen this type of light before. For the first time he saw the real world and knew that what he was seeing far beyond the shadows from the cave.
There are television sets in nearly every household in America. Therefore most children grow up watching television. The problem is that television programs are becoming increasingly violent. Regularly watched, these programs can cause harmful effects on children. Children, being easily influenced, will imitate the television characters.
Plato uses the description of “Darkness” to possibly imply there are false realities that we each have and uses “sunlight” to stand for being enlightened by the “new world”, which is what the released prisoner was to experience. The “cave” is referred to as the “little world” that they are living in. I feel as if it is just a small part of the world that they know V/S the Larger world they should explore They are not free because they don’t know what experiences is outside the cave. They have been sheltered and not allowed to see for themselves what life can really be. The “shackles” are like a symbol of how they all have this same way of living and thinking.
They are not learning the moral and life lessons that are usually taught at home by Mom and Dad, and instead they are learning about morality and life from teachers and through videogames and TV programs. The world today had too many options for people without morals. We have television and internet to influence us. Plato's theory on the Allegory of the Cave is somewhat intricate, but basic at the same time, he discusses The Allegory of the Cave in that we are chained to a wall (all facing the wall), behind us is another wall with figures walking across it, behind that wall is a pit of fire, the firelight casts shadows upon the wall in front of those chained to the wall (515). Because we are chained to that wall we are afraid of what could be behind us, we never look.
The media has a huge control on what is being watched on television. When it comes to Jackass the movie people love watching films that shows people hurting themselves and doing stupid stunts. People believe that watching others get hurt is more entertaining than watching intellectual shows because it puts many of them to sleep. Throughout the film there were many interviews from different people on describing what stupidity means to them. Not many of them really understand what it means.
We are introduced to” human beings” who have been in this dark underground den since their “early childhood”, and have had their “legs and necks chained” ever since, preventing them from any kind of movement at all (FYR: 6). Since they are not able to turn their heads they can only see shadows which are projected to the walls by fire which is located directly behind them (FYR: 6). They are unaware that they are prisoners because of their present state since childhood. There is a path between the prisoners and the fire. This path is used by people who carry “all sorts of vessels, and statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials” on their heads (FYR: 6).
Censorship in television really relies on the person whom is watching either TV or a movie. But in most cases there is an underage kid who cannot watch certain things that should be censored and not all channels and movies are censored. Programs shown over television may contain offensive language or visuals, which may be harmful for the viewers like children. I believe that all programs on television should be censored by the government or a responsible group or even
Plato compared the world to a cave, where no truth is ever found. In the cave there are prisoners, representing us because just like us they cannot see true beauty. The prisioners in the cave are described as being chained to the floor, and all they can see is the wall where the shadows of the perfect forms are seen. The prisioners see it as a distortion of real perfection. A prisoner from the cave (Socrates) escapes.