How can you connect the term Man to Plato's Allegory of the Cave/?

Question

i am writing a definition essay on Man & i need to somehow include The Allegory of the Cave in my intro. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

"Man, in his inherent skepticism and doubt, will believe little or nothing that that their own senses have not told them is the reality." (that's my quote)

"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history’s brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind. The Aristotelian revival of the thirteenth century brought men to the Renaissance. The intellectual counter-revolution turned them back toward the cave of his antipode: Plato.

There is only one fundamental issue in philosophy: the cognitive efficacy of man’s mind. The conflict of Aristotle versus Plato is the conflict of reason versus mysticism. It was Plato who formulated most of philosophy’s basic questions—and doubts.

"It was Aristotle who laid the foundation for most of the answers.

"Thereafter, the record of their duel is the record of man’s long struggle to deny and surrender or to uphold and assert the validity of his particular mode of consciousness.

Review of J.H. Randall’s Aristotle,

The Objectivist Newsletter, May 1963,

Plato made man out to be an inherent doubter. Aristotle proved Man was capable of turning each doubt into knowledge, thus dispelling the doubt.

Answer 2

Man is at more than one level.

The movement in the Cave indicates a Maslowian kind of movement and opportunity.

The ordinary outer waking consciousness is in the cave, interested in being in the world.

By the Light, man may move up the ladder of divine ascent, into the Light.

"I Am the Light of the cave" is Jesus' message.  But the messager is not heeded by the majority in the cave, and the Messenger returns to the Sun/Son Light.

"The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet.

Answer 3

In Plato's Allegory of the Cave men symbolize legislators and poets.

The prisoners in the cave are everyday people.

The difference between the people (men) are created by law and convention.

Answer 4

im assuming you already know the allegory of the cave...

okay, there are two kinds of man who played part in the allegory of the cave, the man who went out and saw the light and those men who are kept tied in the cave.....

man desires to know, he is curious, he wanders, he wonders. the man who went out of the cave would be like the person who is hungry for knowledge, for answers, who want to resolve all the mysteries he sees in life so he strives for those.... he is a real man, a real, authenticated man... a man who has lived his life fully.... this is a challenge for us, the contemporary men.... to strive for knowledge and goodness... and to know the beautiful.

the second type of man who is kept tied at the walls of the cave are those puppets of authorities who keeps following... they don't ask much question and they don't want to understand what life is... this kind of man is that person who is only concerned with carnal pleasure, with material world, and is not living his life fully... his life is mediocre...-... it is a challenge for this man to know himself more and does not confide everytime to authorities when he has queries... he must practice his owm merits and determine what he really is....

hope this helped..