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Ataturkistan (November 19th, 2009 @ 9:10 pm)

Yess!! i understand more

caramelitsaa (November 9th, 2009 @ 5:06 pm)

it's an allegory..! there weren't ACTUALLY people living in a cave like prisoners..it's a symbolism of people's ignorance..we are all "prisoners" because we cant remember the truth..the one and only truth which is immortal and absolute like Socrates used to say..however some people can break their "chains" ,"go out of the cave" and see the light,the real world and the truth..these are the philosophers..

painxtreme (October 30th, 2009 @ 6:15 pm)

Mr. Binary, Plato lived from 426-348, during a part of the Peloponnesian War, But Greece of his time was relatively peaceful. The Colosseum was completed in 80 AD during the reign of Titus. The Romans are notorious for copying everything Greek, from the Great Classical Art and Architecture to some of the Republic thought of Plato, but they were the bloody ones. The Greeks however, did not have fights to the death in Plato's time....They had Naked Olympics, and Plato was a wrestler, yuck.

Samadhiatman500 (October 25th, 2009 @ 7:03 am)

Good job. Thank you.

minihamlet (October 19th, 2009 @ 8:07 pm)

Good job for a school project, of course it is abbreviated. Anyway, the allegory is the journey of enlightenment. The lesson is no take fro granted what you think you know, but to mistrust all inherited knowledge and instead rely on your investigations of reality. This is all about enlightenment.

1110111011101 (October 15th, 2009 @ 7:20 pm)

This was in ancient times. This idea was originally brought to public by Socrates, which Plato wrote down and published. Back then, the average citizen PAID to watch slaves and warriors fight to the death in the Colosseum, how would anyone feel guilty raising a couple people in a cave?

Bonepoet666 (October 9th, 2009 @ 12:15 pm)

Using emergency situations to validate your philosophy shows weakness in philosophy.-if a man is chained?-if a there is a fire behind him?-if there are puppets and shadows. What about reality? What about men with freedom of movement and thought? Are we supposed to looked to a tortured prisoner for enlightenment?

BeachedWhale09 (October 1st, 2009 @ 12:53 am)

time to come out of the cave The Obama Deception - watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw

LadyLaLa2009 (October 1st, 2009 @ 12:02 am)

Good Job!

PTFAbedeh (September 29th, 2009 @ 5:33 am)

Agreed, Fallen0paper. This isn't the complete allegory, which the Socrates character explains in the second half! "[T]he prison-house is the world of sight...and you will not misapprehend me if you interpret the journey upwards to be the ascent of the soul into the intellectual world." In the allegory, the outside world is reason, and the more real of the two, while the shadows represent physical sense. I don't agree with this necessarily, but this video doesn't present the whole picture.

jacksonmetai (September 24th, 2009 @ 1:13 pm)

You are all wrong because you're missing the largest part of the allegory.

jennifervision (September 18th, 2009 @ 4:06 am)

I'm so glad someone understands it.