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Plato's Allegory of the Cave describes prisoners chained in a cave seeing only shadows on the cave wall from a fire behind them. They believe the shadows are reality. One prisoner escapes and sees the true world outside, realizing the shadows were not reality. When he returns to free the others, they refuse to believe his description of the true world, insisting the shadows are reality. The allegory illustrates Plato's view that most people are ignorant of true reality and accept only what they perceive through their senses as real, rather than intellectual understanding.

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Plato's Allegory of the Cave describes prisoners chained in a cave seeing only shadows on the cave wall from a fire behind them. They believe the shadows are reality. One prisoner escapes and sees the true world outside, realizing the shadows were not reality. When he returns to free the others, they refuse to believe his description of the true world, insisting the shadows are reality. The allegory illustrates Plato's view that most people are ignorant of true reality and accept only what they perceive through their senses as real, rather than intellectual understanding.

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First Slide

For my presentation, I will be talking about the Allegory of the Cave or Plato’s Cave
but before delving deep into that topic, I will first provide you with a brief information
about Plato.

Second Slide
— is an ancient Greek philosopher, the student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle
and founder of the Academy, best known as the author of philosophical works of
unparalleled influence such as his most famous and widely read dialogue called
Republic.

Third Slide
Plato frequently used parables and allegories to communicate his arguments and
to make points. The Allegory of the Cave, which appears in the Republic, was
written by Plato to develop his ideas on reality and knowledge. It was designed to
show the dichotomy between opinion and belief, and the real and the unreal.

Fourth Slide
“Deep inside a cave a group of prisoners are chained to a wall since their childhood. Not
only are their limbs immobilized by the chains but their heads are also chained so that
their eyes are fixed on a wall and can only see the shadows that are projected in front of
them. These shadows are what they believe is the truth. Then one of the prisoners
escapes the darkness of the cave into the light of a new world and realizes that the truth
lies beyond his chains. However, when he returns to the cave to free his peers with his
new found truth, the other prisoners refuse to believe him.”

Fifth Slide
that there were a number of prisoners chained together in a cave for a great period of
time. There is a fire behind them, and between the fire and the captives are people
carrying objects. The flames cast shadows on the walls before the prisoners who think
that they are real. So, the prisoners mistakes shadow-play for reality. One day one of
the prisoners’ escapes, and see the fire and realizes that what he understood to be real
was only shadows.
He then explores the world outside the cave, and understands the nature of reality for
the first time. The prisoner realizes that the other chained prisoners need to know this,
and that this would encourage them to escape the cave. On his return to the cave, the
prisoner was half-blind because his eyes were not used to the sunlight. None of the
prisoners would believe him and now think that he is blind. They refuse to try and leave
the cave, and continue to believe that the shadows that they see is reality.
The cave and its shadows are the world of the sense, the fire is the sun, and the
external world is the realm of Ideas. Most people are only aware of the shadows and not
the real world. This is because they assume knowledge of the senses, and not the
forms. Most people live in ignorance as a result. The escape of the prisoner from the
darkness to the outside world reflects the rise of the soul from the sensible realm to the
that of the Ideas, which is where truth resides. Like the prisoner, those who see the
Forms will reject the old view of reality and want to know more about the truth, which
can only be known intellectually.

Sixth Slide
In Plato's Analogy of the divided line, noesis is beyond dianoia, and while dianoia is concerned
with mathematical entities, noesis is the highest state of the mind which reasons from
Forms to Forms, reaches first principles, first causes and the axioms of axiology, and
then deduces conclusions from them.

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