Cave In Book VII of the Republic, Socrates and Glaucon talk about the Myth of the Cave when they are understanding the word “good.” This story is about people being chained inside of a dark cave, unable to move, not even their heads. The only thing that the people are able to see are the shadows, which, to them, are the realist things they know exists. One day, a person discovers a way out of the cave; the person who escaped most likely struggled to get out and once they were free, they were blinded by the brightness of the sun. After the person’s eyes adjusted to the light they were able to see real objects, not just shadows, and they learned that they haven’t been looking at real objects the whole time they were in the cave, they were …show more content…
When the person escapes from the chains, he realizes that he is ignorant on his ignorance. He learns that there is more to existence than these shadows. The struggle to get out of the cave is the person become more knowledgeable; once the person is out of the cave and his eyes are adjusted to the light, he has now been educated, which means he is good. The people in the cave are still ignorant, because the educated person good, he will help the others become educated. This will not be easy, the educated persons sight won’t be accustomed to the dim light, so he will have trouble seeing, also the ignorant people will be hard to help because of how ignorant they are they will call the educated person ignorant and slander him. Because the educated person is good, he will help anyways. He will educate them on their ignorance, and he will help them hike through the cave, educating them every step of the way, all because that is what a “good” person does. Some won’t make it to the light, but the ones who do are now educated and considered to be …show more content…
He is now retired from playing soccer but because of his greatness and knowledge of the game he has chosen to become a coach. Zinedine Zidane is educating the players of the team of Real Madrid, in Spain. It could be considered necessary for him to become a coach for a few reasons. One reason is that there is a possibility of a player even greater than he was, because of Zinedine Zidane passing along his knowledge to the younger player, and the players hard work and dedication, the player could possibly become better than Zinedine Zidane which would be something great to witness. Another reason that its necessary for Zinedine Zidane to teach soccer is that it is his responsibility to help the ignorant soccer players learn some skill. Zinedine Zidane is to soccer as a philosopher is to knowledge, philosophers obtain knowledge and impart the knowledge amongst other people, Zinedine Zidane obtained the skill of soccer and now it is his time to teach
Fidel knew that today was not the day for him to be a couch potato and rest. He knew that he had to go to his friends house to go play a game of cascaritas. Throughout Fidels childhood his father introduced him to the world of soccer. Fidel was really amazed and passioate about the fact that he is being tought soccer. From Kicking a simple round ball to dribbleing and megging people.
“The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato is about a group of prisoners that were chained up in a cave with their backs facing the exit of the cave, unable to see what was going on in the outside world. They occasionally would see shadows on the wall and would
When one of the person is allowed to leave the cave and see the real world they don’t believe it. Even more when they return to the cave to tell the others. The others won’t believe the person that left because all they know is the shadows. That’s why Plato says “[…] that the true analogy for this indwelling power in the soul and the instrument whereby each of us apprehends is that of an eye that could not be converted to the light from darkness except by turning the whole body.” (Plato 750).
Just like the prisoner of the Cave, Harold Crick breaks free from his chains of naivety and widens his vision to become truly enlightened. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave the prisoners are described as being “chained so they cannot move, and can only see before them” (Plato 1). These chains are notable not only because they are the restriction that keeps the people
In life, the world one lives in is always assumed to be the reality, without anyone questioning its credibility. As Iris Murdoch once said, “[People] live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. ”(Iris Murdoch Quotes). In The Allegory of the Cave by Plato, prisoners are trapped in a cave and chained so that they are to face a wall and only see the shadows of objects that pass behind them.
The book discusses the history through the careers of Zidane and Thurman, who both were recruited to football academies as teenagers. They met for the first time at the French National team tryouts. Football is similar to a universal
The person who releases the prisoners has been enlightened from the bonds of a false reality. The prisoners become completely free when they are realesed from their chains, and accept what things truly are, rather than what they had perceived them to be. The journey out of the cave represents a prisoners’ unwilllingness to change and a resistance to accept new truths. The prisoners have to force themselves out of the cave into this reality.
As a soccer big fan, i believe that soccer has the power to change the world. It improves our life conditions, has the power to unite people and breaks down racial barriers. Under resourced countries will develop and become richer countries thanks to soccer. Furthermore, it improves personal skills by boosting self-confidence, self-esteem and communication skills. First of all, soccer has the power to change the world because it has the power to inspire and the power to unite people.
Eli Martinez September 14, 2016 Imagine a country in which the only emotions you feel are joy and happiness but underneath all of this lies a terrible fact. The story Those who walk away from Omelas by Ursula K. LeGuin tells of all this and it can greatly be compared to The Allegory of the cave by Plato, The book 1984 by George Orwell and to The United States of America in many ways. First of all the story about Omelas tells of a city state where everyone is happy and people live in harmony among one another but what the reader does not know until further in the story is that underneath all this is a sad truth about how the citizens of Omelas keep innocent children who are thought of as defective underneath the castle in a cellar where the only reality that they know is the reality of living in a cellar with nothing to do and very malnourished. This is a great example of how plato 's Allegory of the cave relates to this story of Omelas because it relates to the people who are kept in a cave in plato 's story and they only know the life given to them in that cave.
The emergence from the cave is an enlightenment of intellectualism, when all the difficulties and confusion of life is gone and only reality exists. Plato uses the shadow of fire as a metaphor for intelligence. The people who emerged out of the brightness represent truth; the freed prisoner. The chained prisoner would “look towards the firelight; all this would hurt him, and he would be too much dazzled to see distinctly those things whose shadows he had seen before”(Plato
Because it makes you believe in yourself, because there are players besides being idols are great people, because the one that plays better does not win, but one that left his heart in the field, because soccer is the only religion that has no atheists, Because if you do not feel the game for soccer you wouldn’t understand it, because knowing that you lost is the first step to a victory, because is a passion that make us happy, because is more than just a game, because no matter the time or the place soccer is played everywhere, because we all dream of making the best move or the best goal in a match, because there is nothing else cuter than winning, because even if we lose we always have a rematch a second chance, because it is the sport in which your friends can become enemies and enemies can become friends, because nothing is said until the end of 90 minutes, because it takes more than talent to succeed, because there are players who leave everything on the field, because it is a passion that lies in our hearts, for such a simple object as the ball can make millions of people happy, for this and more soccer is the most beautiful sport in the
Based on Plato’s theory, knowledge allows people to use this definition to base their ethics and pursue “the Good” through practice. As in the metaphor of the story, the man who has been exposed to the light feels remorse when he thinks of the people in the cave living their lives among the dark so he returns to them to spread the truth of light. While they seem to be harsh towards his beliefs, the people wish to exile him for speaking things of such a foolish nature. The knowledgeable man understands the disparity
At that moment, he is able to realize that what he thought to be the only reality was really a copy of the real reality. Again he assumes that the statues and the fire are the most real things out there; completely unaware that there are other things more "real" beyond his cave. However, when the prisoner is dragged out of the cave into the real world he finally understands and learns that there are other things out there that he has not seen yet that makes up the world and reality. He is finally enlightened by the knowledge he received by observing his surroundings beyond his
First, soccer can improve your health and fitness. People of various ages who play sports are healthier than people who don’t do anything at all. Soccer is a useful skill that can do a lot of things with a person’s
Searching for the truth is very challenging, as the world today entrenched in lies. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” briefly tells a story about cavemen being chained on most parts of their body, restring all movement including their head, since childhood. Then, he discussed the consequences inflicted onto the cavemen, specifically their perspective towards the truth after being chained for a long period of time in the dark cave, which resembles many events occurring in a person’s daily life. Based on the discussed effects, the author argues that human beings should always seek the real meaning of truth.