Essays on Allegory of the Cave

Reality is something that is more of a concept than a factual thing. Reality is subjective, it’s a phenomenon that is perceived. To live in a “fabricated” world, like in “The Allegory of the Cave,” Plato argues that the “real” world is much better than...

Why are we here? What is a reality? What is the purpose of life? Why do we exist? These are some philosophical questions that each of us might have raised or questioned about. For that reason, a prominent Greek philosopher named Plato attempted to explain...

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...

Philosophy encompasses a vast compilation of ideas that span centuries of human history, and some very old ideas remain just as relevant today, as they were ages ago. Some of the ideas that ancient philosophers devised over two thousand years ago, are still very present...

The “Allegory of the Cave” is a philosophical writing that metaphorically and symbolically explains the relationship between knowledge and ignorance. In my perspective the “Allegory of the Cave” is an accurate metaphor for modern-day society regarding our educational system. The image that Plato illustrates in...

Inception, a film produced by Christopher Nolan, is a 2010 science fiction thriller. Inception was credited for its originality, winning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. This award is presented to the most unique script that is not grounded on other material published. It...

Plato presented to the world a metaphor that is widely known as the “Allegory of the cave” or the “Myth of the Cave”. It’s Plato’s view on the existence of human reality. Imagine a group of people spending their entire life tied up living in...

There will never be such a thing as a perfect human society. Even when they seem perfect on the surface there are always hidden problems that once realized can drastically change your way of thinking. The three societies I will be examining for this will...