#allegory of the cave

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

allegory of the cave (380 bc.) - plato

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[expressingexperience]

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[bookhugers]

Fun lil batman connection/theory i was thinking off!

The bat-cave is basically the allegory of the cave. With Batman using the bat-cave (batman as the identity) to hide from reality (parents death etc).

Idk if others have already thought of this but ;3

[httpschrys]

On The Allegory of the Cave by Plato

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[kiynania]

Monkie Kid:

The show where we make allegories literal

[47-possums-in-a-trenchcoat]

Matthias Helvar is so The Allegory of the Cave coded

[dorothygale123]

Okay, so, I just watched season 5 of Lego Monkie Kid, and I have some things to say. Namely, how the main antagonist has ties to Greek philosophy. Any spoilers will be under the cut, so continue at your own risk.

So, I the climax of the season, the 9 Headed Demon talks about himself and the other inhabitants of the world as living in a cave created by Nuwa, knowing the sun exists but fearing it and not wanting to go out. The only one who does is him, and the others call him crazy after he returns from the outside.

This has striking similarities to a thought experiment by Plato called the Allegory of the Cave. In this allegory, Plato describes prisoners that are chained in a cave (obviously), but they are also facing a blank wall with light coming from behind them. All they know and understand of the world is the shadows that flicker across the cave wall. This is supposed to represent the fact that our own perceptions of reality are limited and biased, as we can never truly see everything for all that it truly is. As humans, we're simply incapable of processing something on that level of magnitude.

Plato also describes a prisoner that escapes the cave and sees the world for what it truly is and goes back to tell the other prisoners what the world is like. The other prisoners, only knowing the cave, think he's crazy and fear the outside. In some versions, they even kill the escaped prisoner for trying to free them, prefferring the safety of the cave to the unknown outside. In Plato's allegory, the escaped prisoner is a philosopher who has left the 'cave' of preconceptions and tries to see the world as it truly is.

LMK's interpretation seems to posit that while the cave is different from the outside, the experiences and people inside it are valid and have just as much a right to exist as whatever is outside the cave. It also put the escaped prisoner, the 9 Headed Demon, in an unusually antagonistic role. Most stories I've seen that use the Allegory of the Cave imply that getting out of the cave and seeing the world in full is the best option, but the world outside LMK's 'cave' seems dangerous and nigh incomprehensible. It's actually the first time I've sided with the prisoners that want to stay inside the cave.

After all, if the only thing outside the cave is Cthulu I'm staying in here!

[wouldyourfavepaychildsupport]

Would Plato's Allegory of the Cave pay child support?

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Matrix (1999, Andy and Larry Wachowski)

07/11/2024

[luckywolfsbane]

Okay, that's it. I know I have to look it up now, but I'm curious.

Reblog this for a larger sample size. Please.

[ashes2caches]

guy who’s only ever seen shadows projected onto a cave wall looking at the real world for the first time: i’m getting big shadow vibes from this

[galleryofart]

An Allegory of Intelligence

Artist: Cesare Dandini  (Italian, 1596–1657)

Style: Baroque

Date: 1656

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Private Collection

[sex-death-rebirth]

Plato's Cave, Flemish School, attributed to Michiel Coxie, 16th c.

[arguablysomaya]

got another shift in this dumb ass cave bruh. i hate projecting these fucking shadows but these stupid prisoners need their entertainment or they get cranky and start trying to climb into the light 🤦🏿‍♀️

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Whereas Plato envisioned common perceptions as revealing a mere shadow of reality, the holographic principle concurs, but turns the metaphor on its head. The shadows – the things that are flattened out and hence live on a lower-dimensional surface �� are real, while what seem to be more richly structured, higher-dimensional entities (us; the world around us) are evanescent projections of the shadows.*

* If you're reluctant to rewrite Plato, the braneworld scenario gives a version of holography in which shadows are put back in their proper place. Imagine that we live on a three-brane that surrounds a region with four space dimensions (much as the two-dimensional skin of an apple surrounds the apple's three-dimensional interior). The holographic principle in this setting would say that our three-dimensional perceptions would be the shadows of four-dimensional physics taking place in the region surrounded by our brane.

"The Fabric of the Cosmos" - Brian Greene