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to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...
as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...
make sure that isolation is maintained from the rest of the city. However, the controlling gaze of the soldiers is also negated be...
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...
student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...
adolescent, Bilbos development was being restricted by his limited - albeit comfortable - surroundings. Gandalf recognized that i...
painful as are disease and old age. It is painful not to have what we would like to have (Lorentz, 2007). In other words, life is ...
one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...
commercialization has had upon the Indiana bat population. Bats need to be left alone during hibernation; when people are provide...
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...
study showed that the emotions of "loving-kindness and compassion" could be encouraged and learned as sixteen "age-matched contro...
Yet, this movement includes many who are in a minority. Today, regardless of religion, sex is everywhere. This was not always the ...
suffering: Why doesnt he participate, and why does he leave his faithful servants to suffer?5 These questions are fundamental to...
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...
tolerance, and forgiveness. Indeed, many religions have a history of instilling peace in not-so-peaceful times. Buddhism...
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 ...
ancestral recollections. This new talent is put to the test when she samples a bit of her own herbal concoction at the Clan gathe...
humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...
or so it might seem. But when they return; of course, they are blinded. They may know all and they may have seen all-- but perhaps...
In five pages this paper examines Florida's case and includes a discussion of formation, description, and recovered fossils. Six ...
much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...