Existing and developing its stereotype enrich the range of meanings through a combination of “mind with matter, symbol with narrative, simplification with history”. The discussions related to the text of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”.Īn allegory as a thinking process goes beyond mere simplification. course in Education and Teaching at the Ohalo Academic College. This online forum (in a Moodle environment) accompanied a lesson entitled “Introduction to philosophy of education on the timeline”, in Year 1 of a B.Ed. The article is based on a thorough observation of discussions in the forum of an online course that took place during the academic years 2014, 2015, 2016. As far as could be ascertained, very few studies have dealt with such a decoding process. These complex thinking processes have significant educational meaning in enabling students to reach insights concerning the characteristics of the educator suitable for the challenges of the 21st century. ( General view of Philosophers in Ancient Greece- odd) Want to kill him echoes the death of Socrates.The research observes thinking processes of students undergoing training to become future teachers when they interpreted and provided a new augmented analogy for the ancient text “The Allegory of the Cave” in Plato’s Politeia (The Republic). Other prisoners laugh and want to kill him. Return to the Cave- cannot see again, difficulties of seeing the Forms within the world. ( Plato’s idea that those who can see the Forms should be the leader of society not the politicians- knowledge of the Forms is an essential quality of any ruler) Released Prisoner- Wants to stay above ground, feels a duty to go back underground and tell the others about the truth. Sun- sustains all living things, represents the Form of the Good, source of all the other Forms. Robin Waterfield: Prisoners attracted to shadows, represent culture limiting people’s ability to see the world.Ībove Ground- starts to see, gradually learning to distinguish Forms from the images and contemplate the role of the Sun. Prisoner set free- people need to be taught to understand the Forms, actual teaching can be distressing. People carrying statues- Politicians and Philosophers. Statues- Images of the Forms, people carrying them same views as prisoners, shape the prisoners’ views. Prisoners- Illusionary World, their situation is the same as ours, we don’t see the Forms clearly. When they do go back into the cave and tell the others the truth the others reject him and laugh, convinced that it is better to remain underground in the world they know than to go above ground to uncertainty. The prisoner will then decide it is their duty to go back into the cave to tell the other prisoners about the real world. Finally they will look up at the sun and see how it supports life throughout the year, once this has happened they won’t want to go back underground because they will realise the truth of the world. Over time is they’re prevented from going back into the cave their eyes will adjust and they will be able to see the world. So then imagine some big burly guy (Or gal) dragging them up a long steep ramp at the back of the cave before throwing the prisoner into the sunlight, they won’t be able to see because their eyes are so used to the darkness of the cave. After being released their eyes will adjust to the light and they will be able to see the items being carried this confuses them because for their whole life they have seen nothing but the shadows which they believe is reality. When they (I’m going to call the prisoner ‘they’ for gender equality purposes) turns around they will be confused and not understand what the heck they are looking at.
Now, Plato wants us to imagine that one of the prisoners is then freed. They believe that these shadows are real because they are the only things they can see and if they hear voices from the people walking behind them they think that the shadows are the ones talking. People walk up and down behind that wall carrying different items on their heads the prisoners see the shadows of these items on the wall in front of them. The only light in this cave comes from a fire which is hidden behind a wall behind the prisoners. Okay so imagine a group of people chained in a cave deep underground, they’re all chained in a way which means that they can only look forward at the wall. The cave is considered to be allegorical, each different part of the analogy are symbolic. This is possibly one of his most famous analogies, it is used to explain his theories of the Forms.
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