Essays on Allegory of the Cave

Common sense seems to dictate that you should obey the rules of religion no matter what, you can’t even think of questioning them. Yet, this is exactly the kind of behaviour what Plato stands against in the Allegory of the Cave. In the allegory, Glaucon...

A fundamental question of our existence is what makes a human being a human being? What concretely defines the division between man and all other living creatures. While the answer seems straightforward, the debate of the components of human beings was a controversy between ancient...

Taking Plato’s Allegory of the Cave as an example, it is possible to see many cave concepts today. As in The Allegory of the cave, people can first live in a cave that they only accept as their own reality, and then they can come...

Have you ever wondered to yourself what is the reality, truth, or the meaning of life, and exactly how are you so educated about the world? The story, “The Allegory of the Cave” written by Plato, compares the effect of education and the lack of...

Every moment in our daily lives we trust our senses to tell us the truth. We tend to believe what we touch, smell, see, hear, and taste, but do we ever think about the fact that our senses may be lying to us? If we...

In Book X of “The Republic of Plato” by Allan Bloom, Plato utilizes Socrates as his voice to discuss the subject of poetry in his optimal society. While he thinks about gymnastics and music as essential pieces of society, he views poetry as something that...

What if the reality you are used to see is not the real one? How would you feel if you discovered that during your whole life you have been controlled and used as entertainment? The aim of this essay is to compare the film The...

As both ancient and modern philosophers continue to challenge the ideas of everyday thought, attention continues to be brought to the truth and validity of these theories. As Plato and Socrates try to navigate in a world full of uncertainty their thoughts are consistently challenged...

Plato’s cave story is a dialogue about perception and people rejecting reality due to ignorance. To demonstrate it, there exists a cave with people bound and tied in such a way that they are able to look only in one direction, towards a wall in...

Plato’s allegory of the cave is considered a good example of illustrating the way people think. It also explains the concepts of adapting people to different changes including things they don’t know or are not familiar with. Plato explained that some prisoners were living in...