allegory of the Cave

An early written thought experiment was Plato's allegory of the cave.

Instead of just memorizing the allegory of the cave I read the facts and told it in my own words."

Plato allegory of the cave influenced western thinkers who believe that happiness is found by finding deeper meaning.

The film The Matrix models Plato's Allegory of the cave.

Redemption lies in striving toward knowledge of the Good, as in Plato's allegory of the cave and the sun.

Allegory of the cave: The struggle to understand forms like men in cave guessing at shadows in firelight.

It was believed that the perceptions ought to be overcome to grasp the thing-in-itself, the essential essence, ala Plato's allegory of the cave.

In addition, the Allegory of the Cave is an attempt to explain the philosopher's place in society: to attempt to enlighten the "prisoners."

In The Republic, these concepts were illustrated using the metaphor of the sun, the analogy of the divided line, and the allegory of the cave.

By way of string theory and the holographic principle, some physicists conjecture that Plato's allegory of the cave approximates the natural world's structure.

The fundamental idea of the composition was inspired by Plato's philosophic metaphor The Allegory of the Cave:

It is based on Plato's allegory of the cave, about cave dwellers imprisoned in near-darkness since birth whose sense of reality is distorted.

Olivero's quest in the underground world is written as a reversal of Plato's allegory of the cave as described in his Republic.

A form of shadow puppetry is described as early as 380 BC by Plato in the Allegory of the cave.

Plato had taught us that the truth was not present within the society and in public affairs, but in eternal ideas, as demonstrated in the allegory of the cave.

After a few minutes, he went back into the house, pulled a book on ancient Greek philosophers from a shelf and opened it to Plato's "Allegory of the Cave."

The Republic contains Plato's Allegory of the cave with which he explains his concept of The Forms as an answer to the problem of universals.

The 2010 song The Cave recorded by the folk quartet Mumford & Sons contains direct references to Plato's Allegory of the cave.

It begins with a full-page citation of the famous passage in Plato's Republic, Book VII, laying out the allegory of the cave.

In Plato's allegory of the cave, Socrates acknowledges the human impulse "to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light," as it adjusts to the world's brightness.

Plato used the word aeon to denote the eternal world of ideas, which he conceived was "behind" the perceived world, as demonstrated in his famous allegory of the cave.

But Plato prefigures monotheism by looking for the absolute Truth, as in the allegory of the cave, and the absolute Good, as in the Form of the Good.

In the allegory of the cave expressed in Republic, the things that are ordinarily perceived in the world are characterized as shadows of the real things, which are not perceived directly.

The allegory of the cave primarily depicts Plato's distinction between the world of appearances and the 'real' world of the Forms, as well as helping to justify the philosopher's place in society as king.

The allegory of the cave also figures prominently: the epilogue penned by Philotextus states that he believes philosophers are the ones inside the cave, oblivious to the real (that is, material) world all around them.