Is a person’s perception truly reality? According to Plato, a philosopher who is considered the most important figure in the development of philosophy and founder of the Academy in Athens and writer of “Allegory of the Cave” states that there is fear of change in the face of enlightenment and that there is a method in order achieve a sense of knowledge. People are blind by their own perception of reality. Personal experiences affect a person’s perception, and determine a person’s reaction to a situation. Some people have a narrow perception of reality, and are easily satisfied with only receiving basic, public education. Because people refuse to consider other perspectives, they remain imprisoned in their limited understanding of how the world …show more content…
Everything in the world is a perception of some sort because the person who designed the object created it through their eyes. Think of life as being viewed through a camera lens, the events that are brought to focus are filtered and interpreted through thoughts, beliefs and experiences that have occurred over the course of a person’s life. The way a person perceives an object, or situation depends on how a person was raised or taught how to do something. Joseph Fernando, author of “Repetition and Reality: The Case of Contrast Defenses” addresses that when a thought or memory has strong feelings attached, a person generally has a contrast reaction, the reaction may be happy or sad depending on the individual’s past experiences of a certain situation (Fernando 282-283). For example, if a person was cheated on in a relationship that person will have trouble trusting someone for the rest of their life. That individual will perceive people as hurtful and that perception will cause them to not live their life to the fullest and their view of reality will be altered. However, one who has not experienced this type of heartbreak will not perceive people in that way and will more than likely be adventurous because they have not endured the pain of being betrayed by someone they cared about.
Some people have a narrow perception of reality, and are easily satisfied with only receiving basic public education. In today’s world education is the great equalizer among all people. In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” a person can simply start out with nothing and with help of the enlightened (education) be given the opportunity to be successful and turn their life
In the Allegory of the cave, Plato stated "what he had seen before was a cheat and an illusion, but that now, being near to reality and turned toward more real things, he saw more truley." It appeals to me because he's basically inferring what if what we are seeing or what we believe are just our figments of our imagination. A lie that we dwell on, because we are blinded from the truth. Plato statement is something we can all relate. For instance children from our younger years our parents disguise parts of reality to prevent them to live a life of fear. Fear of evil and fear from being hurt. But we as grow older we learn, that there is hate and evil in the world. We learn that not every corner has a rainbow glistening in the sky. And for that
For example, sense perception for the processes of Aristotle’s term “abstraction” plays an important role. This was the argument against Plato’s theory of “recollection” from the book “Aristotle Introductory Reading” by Terence Irwin (see Book 2). Aristotle argued that what we perceive in our senses and collect into what we learn and understand is abstraction. The knowledge of everything we know does not come from the soul, which contains unlimited amount of information as Plato’s theory of recollection suggests, but its actually a process called abstraction. The process of collection and storing information through our senses. But the problem can be that people misunderstand or misuse what their senses perceive and draw a wrong understanding from the information they 've gathered, which leads to an illusion rather than understanding. For example, we grow prejudice towards certain things and likes towards others by simple view of it. If we dislike a color, or a shape we may not further investigate it, or even ignore it, gathering the information and understanding it wrongfully just because of how we felt about it. Same can be said about liking something that we may sometimes over exaggerate and overprice, just because we like it that much even though it does not possess that much of what we would want it to.
In the allegory of the cave, the people had no resources to progress in life. (Behold! Human beings living in an underground den…” (1). the underground den which was mentioned in the text symbolizes restriction and the chain represents stagnation and one could only be stagnant in life if he or she has no available resources to achieve his or her goals. Those who were in bondage have an inadequate supply of live needed materials, they produce little to nothing because they had no necessary supply, but today we have satisfactory sources of what we need to become great in life in our education system. For instance, we have scholarships of different kinds which myself am a great beneficiary of it. We have financial aid and student loans which lessen the burden of tuitions off our shoulders. We have other resources like great teachers who are willing to pass their knowledge onto us. We have mentors who derive joy in mentoring us. Our present educational system is at its best only because the necessary resources needed are
In Plato 's "Allegory of the Cave" Socrates is teaching his pupil Glaucon how people are like prisoners in a cave who have a hard time perceiving reality and thinks that shadows are as real as objects. He goes on to explain that it 's not until one leaves the cave when one can discover truth, but to attain the truth requires one 's own personal journey. In Paulo Freire 's "The Banking Concept of Education" he explains the oppressive way that students are currently being taught through a depositing and receiving type of method where the teacher is the depositor and the students are the empty vessels in which those deposits are put into. He explains how the education
	In Plato’s mind, the value of an education is to clear one’s mind of impure thought, bring it to a higher lever than at the start, and attain a certain level of righteousness. This may have been a good idea 2300 years ago, but today, I see it as very limiting and impractical. In his time, only the rich aristocrats went to school. It’s purpose was not for the students to learn skills or ideas that would help them later in life, but to expand their minds, thus making them into ‘better people.’ There was no need for them to learn any job skills. Back then, if you came from a rich family, you were rich. Working at simple jobs was for the peasants and slaves. Today, life is different. Our society is completely unlike that of the ancient Greeks. We have no caste system limiting the wealth and prominence of any citizen, we have no slavery to handle all the manual labor, our army is proportionately smaller and much less honored, and religion is a part of one’s private life, not a dominating public force as it was to the Ancient Greeks. Most people today have a regular, day to day job, whether it be in an office, store, factory, or anywhere else. We have to earn our wealth by working, not inheritance. That is why most people go to school today.
The irrational concept of the education has been influenced moral principles concerning what is good for a society as well as for an individual; however, the understanding of the intrinsic nature of the education removes the darkness of beliefs, which Plato calls prisoners’ shadows in his writing The Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, a dialogue between Glaucon and Socrates. Although “The Plato’s Allegory of the Cave” was written thousands of years ago, Plato’s depiction of the true education is a wakeup call for our humanity to admit the acquisition of knowledge with circumspection. The truth often relies on a mistaking understanding of sight or shadow according to Plato; the truth regularly relies on prejudice which makes an individual a prisoner, and the discovery of new truth often encounters hostility. A close analysis of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave allows us to view the education as not a way to transfer knowledge, but a way to transform
Everyone on the planet does not experience the same things. They come from different countries, racial and ethnic groups, socio-economic statuses, environments, and many other factors that influence how a person is raised and grows throughout life. Therefore, everyone perceives reality in different ways. Our beliefs and expectations about reality the world can also influence how we experience reality. According to Psychology Today, there are many things that people do that distort reality. For example, the way that people focus their attention can alter their perceptions. When a person has a belief they often only look for evidence that supports their belief and disregard evidence that contradicts their belief. This is called conformation bias. People see things as they want to see them, even if there is evidence to discredit their beliefs. One way for a person to avoid conformation bias is to examine evidence that does not support their belief instead of just ignoring it. This can make a person view the world around them more objectively. Another thing that people do that distorts their reality is that they reconstruct their memories. People often cannot fully remember their memories. These
Without perception, in our illusions and hallucinations, we lose “our sense of beings,” (Capra). Lost in “isolation,” (Capra) perhaps lost within our own illusion, our abstractions, we lose the ability to judge, to dichotomize, reality from illusions, right from wrong.
Education has always been in existence in one form or another. As each child is born into this world regardless of who or where they are born, life lessons immediately begin. He/she will learn to crawl, walk, and talk by the example and encouragement of others. Although these lessons are basic in the beginning they evolve as the child grows. However, the core learning method of a child does not change. Learning from others, they will watch, listen, and then act for themselves. Thomas Jefferson believed that an education would lead men and women to the ability to be self-governed and become positive contributors to society (Mondale & Patton, 2001). Today, we can see how true this is by the examples of others. Those that are given the opportunity for education are more likely to find jobs and develop skills that not only improve a community, but influence the economic growth of their nation (Ravitch, Cortese, West, Carmichael, Andere, & Munson, 2009, p. 13). On the other hand, if an education is not provided to individuals, they can become a hindrance to that nation’s growth.
Perception is defined as the awareness of the world through the use of the five senses, but the concept of perception is often used to isolate one person’s point of view, so how reliable can perception be if no one person’s is exactly the same? The word perception itself is riddled with different, well, perceptions of its meaning. When some hear the word, they might automatically think of it as something innately flawed, that can easily be fooled by illusions, while others may think of its usefulness when avoiding scalding a hand on a hot stove. I am here to agree with both and to argue that perception is something necessary and helpful, and something that should be scrutinized for its flaws. By looking at perception as a way of knowing in the context of memory and human sciences, it can be concluded that perception can contribute to the acquisition of knowledge by constructing a foundation on which incoming stimuli from the environment are able to be quickly interpreted and acted upon, but perception can also hinder the acquisition of knowledge by wrongly interpreting those stimuli, causing inappropriate reactions.
The way that each individual interprets, retrieves, and responds to the information in the world that surrounds you is known as perception. It is a personal way of creating opinions about others and ourselves in everyday life and being able to recognize it under various conditions. Each person’s perceptions are used as a kind of filter that every piece of information has to pass through before it determines the effect that it has or will have on the person from the stimulus. It is convincing to believe that we create multiple perceptions about different situations and objects each day. Perceptions reflect our opinions in many ways. The quality of a person’s perceptions is very important and can affect the response that is given through different situations. Perception is often deceived as reality. “Through perception, people process information inputs into responses involving feelings and action.” (Schermerhorn, et al.; p. 3). Perception can be influenced by a person’s personality, values, or experiences which, in turn, can play little role in reality. People make sense of the world that they perceive because the visual system makes practical explanations of the information that the eyes pick up.
Since perception is how someone chooses to see things, depending on their view, it will also sway and affect their emotions and motivations, based on what they see. Say someone's perception is very negative: that will lead them to only draw out the negatives, probably leading to more depressed and frustrated emotions. This might lead them to have no motivation, or too much, based on how they interpret that negative perception. The reasoning behind this is simple, because if someone sees negatively they will have negative emotions, and probably a reason derived from negativity to motivate themselves. On the other hand, if someone has a positive outlook and perception they will be happier, for they no longer confide themselves in the negatives and will probably have a more valuable reason to motivate themselves. In conclusion, someone's perception will affect their emotions and motivations, and change the way they think, so it is important to keep perceptions
Education is a vital part of society. It serves the beneficial purpose of educating our children and getting them ready to be productive adults in today's society. But, the social institution of education is not without its problems. Continual efforts to modify and improve the system need to be made, if we are to reap the highest benefits that education has to offer to our children and our society as a whole.
Education is a very important aspect of the lives of all people all over the world. What we learn, not just in the classroom, shapes who we are. We take our education everywhere we go. We use it when talking to our buddies about sports or music, we use it while solving a math problem, we use our education while debating with our family whether or not we should watch TV or go to the movies. Our education is the foundation of who we are, since every decision we make and every thought we think is dependent on what we know. Imagine how different the world would be if everyone craved learning to such a degree that at lunch tables all over the world the topic of conversation isn't who likes who, or how drunk someone got over the weekend, but it would be what books were read over the weekend, and what new ideas were thought of. This crave for learning would be an ideal but still suggests need for improvement with the current educational system. It seems that the problem with education is that somewhere along the lines the human race forgot (assuming they, at one point, understood how valuable information is) that learning is not just a mandatory process, but also an opportunity to transcend and open the gateway to a better understanding.
...ead of true knowledge. It is the function of education to lead people out of the cave into the world of light; education is also dependent upon the person who is willing to partake in the acquirement of knowledge. “The conversion of the soul,” says Plato, is “not to put power of sight in the soul’s eye, which already has it, but to insure that, instead of looking in the wrong direction, it is turned the way it ought to be.”