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Discussion Of Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

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The nineties band, Rage Against the Machine, does not fit directly into a specific genre of music. The band’s loud rock guitar riffs, rap-like vocals, and politically driven lyrics make it stand out in a grunge-fueled era. Perhaps it is this drive to reject social norms that makes the band an excellent medium to apply Plato’s discussion of the “Allegory of the Cave” and its implications about challenging the status quo. Specifically, the band’s song “Wake Up” asks its listeners to step out of the shadowy cave and into the light of the reality of the corrupt political world. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” contains themes of distorted truth and facing a feared reality. These themes are demonstrated through his story of prisoners …show more content…

The song challenges the listeners’ perception and asks them to acknowledge the reality that their government officials often resort to manipulative and violent means to further a hidden agenda. Its lyrics are anger-fueled attacks on what they deem as hypocritical actions of these officials who try to portray a moral façade. The band suggests that behind this façade, or the “shadows” the officials puppeteer to the public, they are actually fueling fire to the racism and elitism of the country. The song begins by stating that the “Departments of police, the judges, the feds/Networks at work, keepin' people calm,” which is suggesting that these leaders are brainwashing its people to maintain their version of reality (Commerford et al.). If the officials can get the public to follow in line with their beliefs and stay in the cave, the citizens will remain “calm” and not rebel. The song furthers this idea by stating that “Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to/…pinpoint potential trouble-makers...And neutralize them” (Commerford et al.). Just as Socrates suggests in “The Allegory of the Cave” that the prisoners may kill the freed prisoner upon hearing his challenging new revelations, these lyrics suggest that the government also will “neutralize” those who cause riffs of their

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In the “Allegory of the Cave”, Plato breaks the story into four main scenes to demonstrate the path to enlightenment for the unenlightened reader. He uses a story of a man trapped in a cave,

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The musical composition Guillaume Machaut’s Notre Dame Mass was composed around the mid-fourteenth century. This piece was one the best compositions in its time and it was also the first polyphonic treatment of the mass ordinary by a known composer. The five sung prayers of the ordinary are the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Angus Dei. The prayers were not all sung together. The Kyrie and Gloria were sung in secession of each other and the Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei were separated by liturgical activity or by other religious texts.

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Plato tells us that the prisoners are confused on their emergence from the cave and that the prisoners’ will be blinded once they had been freed from the cave. After a period of time they will adjust their eyesight and begin to understand the true reality that the world poses. The stubbornness to develop a different perspective is seen in much of today’s society. The allegory of the cave is an understanding of what the true world is and how many people never see it because of their views of the society they are raised in.

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The message of the song is that both parties will not compromise. This relates to the man vs. society conflict because the children won’t stand for anything except going back home to the twenty-first century, and the time travelers will not send them back. Both groups are at odds with each other and can not come to an

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The ending of this lyric relates to Chris Washington that later through the movie must not close his eyes in the sunken place and must stay woke to realize the situation he will shortly be put in. Peele introduces this song to inform the viewer that they must be socially aware and awake to avoid danger and being taken advantage of in life. This perspective can be for both the oppressed minority to become knowledged on their own rights and power. It could also be interpreted to the White majority to be awaken of the social issues around them and see beyond their privilege and white

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1) In the allegory of the cave, Plato’s main goal is to illustrate his view of knowledge. A group of prisoners have been chained in a cave their whole lives and all they have ever been exposed to were shadows on the wall and voices of people walking by. The prisoners in the cave represent humans who only pay attention to the physical aspects of the world (sight and sound). Once one of them escapes and sees the blinding light, all he wants is to retreat back to the cave and return to his prior way of living. This shows that Plato believes enlightenment and education are painful, but the pain is necessary for enlightenment and it is worth it.

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This essay is on The Allegory of the Cave, Book VII of The Republic by Plato. This paper is written to explain what the allegory, defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one, or a story with two levels of meaning” is as construed by Plato. This paper will 1) Present that the allegory presented in this story is a number of Plato 's key philosophical postulations 2) The strategy he used to explain his philosophical views in The Allegory of the Cave. 3) How do his views affect and or apply to reality, education and media in our society today.

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First off, one rhetoric that " The Allegory of the Cave" has is a metaphor. A metaphor is comparing two unlike things. The focal thought is, a few detainees were bolted into a give in and the couldn't escape. It speaks to that how much freedom is worth. In the event that you never had an opportunity to see the outside world, you just can envision what it resembles.

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The Allegory of the Cave is a brilliant writing by Plato that really puts into perspective how we are living as a part of a materialistic and consumer society. The darn thing was written almost 2,500 years ago, and considering the fact that the allegory is still relevant today, Plato’s allegory is surprisingly very close to what contemporary society is like. His arguments are undoubtedly strong since he patches all his arguments well to lower any possibilities of counter arguments, but there is still room for doubt. Also, even with those weaknesses, the prisoners in the allegory are still indisputably similar to the people of today, and the cave doubtlessly like the modern society. In this essay, I will discuss some of Plato’s strength and weaknesses in his arguments as well as how the allegory still applies to the current people and society.

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Introduction Plato, a famous Greek philosopher wrote the Allegory of the Cave. He tried to answer some of the profound questions which arose about the nature of reality. He tells the story of 'Allegory of the Cave' as a conversation between his mentor, Socrates (Plato’s mentor), who inspired many of Plato's philosophical theories, and one of Socrates' students, Glaucon (Plato’s older brother). He uses an allegory as a short informative story, to illustrate 'forms' and the 'cave,' in his main work, The Republic (which first appeared around 380 BC). It is one of the most perceptive attempts to explain the nature of reality.

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Also, outside the cave realm, people were engaged in their daily work; however, a wall had been built between these two worlds and restricted the cavemen from seeing the world. They could only see the shadows of people along the wall and accepted those shadows as the reality (Plato, trans. 1997, p. 514b-515b). This masterpiece of Plato is one of the most famous and perceptive assay to illustrate the nature of reality. The cave stands for the state of most human beings, and the tale of escape from the cave is the origin of the true understanding. In this composition, Plato believes that the world is made up of two parts; the forms, and the reality.

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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is at its core a metaphor for what Plato believed to be wrong in Greek society at the time. The fact

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In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave the people think that their entire reality is the shadows that they see on the walls of the cave. Plato explores the truth and criticizes that humanity does not question what is real. Plato explores that the human understanding and accepting of what is real is difficult and

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