Essays 1 - 30
This essay pertains to The Cave by Jose Saramago and presents the interpretation that the author stresses the similarities between...
of Nature. He has also noted that while the 20th century has involved a great deal of specialization, the 21st century will be a ...
In five pages this book is examined and various questions regarding gender, biology, and culture are answered....
In five pages an analysis evaluates the accuracy of Socrates' description of the cave's prisoners as 'like ourselves.' There are ...
In five pages this book on international relations, the Internet, and business is reviewed. There are no other sources listed....
when some archeologists needed assistance in searching through caves that seemed to bend and twist and go on forever, with at leas...
off than those who remain in the cave. Before delving into an analysis, it pays to explore the allegory as laid out by Plato. Wh...
the physical in a dramatic and practical way. While Aristotle saw the heart as just a physical organ, he had an idea that seemed t...
draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of it once, and that expl...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
the cellars of the Vatican. Meanwhile, in the Popes place is an imposter. The Countess, of course, quickly antes up the money that...
without knowing that something solid existed humanity would not see or comprehend anything but shadows. When shown that the world ...
distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...
he rolls a huge boulder across the opening to the cave. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseuss men and it is clear that he plans to make...
adolescent, Bilbos development was being restricted by his limited - albeit comfortable - surroundings. Gandalf recognized that i...
commercialization has had upon the Indiana bat population. Bats need to be left alone during hibernation; when people are provide...
student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...
would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...
late 1990s and early 2000s in the wake of the dot-com bust, and how all of those low interest rates (not to mention greedy lenders...
titled "Life Science: Animals and Their Environments" includes the idea of also incorporating art into the lesson. The first artwo...
he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...
know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...
to be transcendent elements sent to teach important lessons turns out to be nothing more than images cast from puppets whose shado...
human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...
surrounded by a host of celestial maidens... So awe-struck was the disciple that he immediately took up hammer and chisel, hollo...
to the outside, the cave becomes a type of conduit, or birth canal which brings him into the life of actual knowledge. What one ca...
In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
their companions, the group made a pact. They decided that if they are truly starving, they would sacrifice one member of the grou...
the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...