The readings of "Simulations" and "Artificial Ethics" reminded me of the movie "War Games". Both of these reading described how technology has a ‘mind of its own’. In the reading “Artificial Ethics” they say that “Do these programs possess consciousness?”(Driver 210). This sentence alone reminded me of the movie the war games because a boy named David, who is a computer hacker in his spare time. He decides to hack into a computer gaming company to play the latest and greatest game before it is released to the public. However, instead of getting into the gaming companies database, he hacks into the pentagon’s top secret war files. He then decides to play a simulation game called “Thermo Nuclear War”, which is a simulation of the war versus Russia. However, what started out as a game seems all too real, as WOPR takes over the systems at the NORAD project, and the folks there aren't sure if it is all a game or if the Russian missiles that appear to be poised to wipe out the US means World War III is imminent.
The computer game in this move seemed to have a mind of its own, a consciousness per say. But I don’t believe computers or technology actually has a conscious. I believe it was created by the designer of the actually software who was HUMAN and DID have morality and a conscious. Their personality and aspects of their conscience and morals are input in what they have created just as our when we develop something, whether it be a piece of literature or a work of art.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Week 10
"1984" Part Three
I can't believe the book ended the way it did. I really had hoped for Winston to start a revolution against the party.
I can't believe the book ended the way it did. I really had hoped for Winston to start a revolution against the party.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Week 9
'1984' Section 2
In the second section my question about the identity of Julia are answered. He is a trouble maker and a rebel. It seems like she will do anything to break the rules but when out in the watchful eye of “Big Brother” she is the perfect person. She makes me angry in a sense because I feel that she is going to get Winston into some trouble. It doesn’t seem that he has as much self control as Julia does. She taunts him with bring him ‘real’ stuff such as coffee, sugar, and bread. I also find it odd with her promiscuity. It seems like she is the secret town whore with many locations out of sight by higher authority to do the deed. In my opinion it seemed like Winston is falling in a trap by falling in love with her. However, they eventually break up due to the initiation of them both into the ‘Brotherhood’. O’Brian requested that they break up in order to be initiated and to remain in the brotherhood. Also, Mr Charrington came up in this section. I do not like him and I do not think he is part of the Brotherhood. Anyway, he let Winston use his secret room so he could have relations with Julia. How nice. However, in the end of the section we find out that he is in fact a part of the Truth Police and he was setting the couple up the entire time. I KNEW IT!!!
In the second section my question about the identity of Julia are answered. He is a trouble maker and a rebel. It seems like she will do anything to break the rules but when out in the watchful eye of “Big Brother” she is the perfect person. She makes me angry in a sense because I feel that she is going to get Winston into some trouble. It doesn’t seem that he has as much self control as Julia does. She taunts him with bring him ‘real’ stuff such as coffee, sugar, and bread. I also find it odd with her promiscuity. It seems like she is the secret town whore with many locations out of sight by higher authority to do the deed. In my opinion it seemed like Winston is falling in a trap by falling in love with her. However, they eventually break up due to the initiation of them both into the ‘Brotherhood’. O’Brian requested that they break up in order to be initiated and to remain in the brotherhood. Also, Mr Charrington came up in this section. I do not like him and I do not think he is part of the Brotherhood. Anyway, he let Winston use his secret room so he could have relations with Julia. How nice. However, in the end of the section we find out that he is in fact a part of the Truth Police and he was setting the couple up the entire time. I KNEW IT!!!
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Week 8
'1984' Section 1
The first section of 1984 left me with many questions and unfinished thoughts. My first question is about the dark haired girl. I was wondering who she was and what she wanted with Winston. Another character I want to know more about is Mr. Charrington. He is a very sketchy character. Why would he provoke Winston to write a diary? If he were a part of the inner party he would have told on Winston, but he didn’t. Also, I was left questioning about the three men who were captured, tortured, released back into society, and then captured again in the cafeteria. Why would they pick suck a public place to capture them. Why could the police just have gone to their homes and taken them. I think the police wanted too do it in a very public place so that they could show the public the consequences of breaking the laws. I have many unanswered question that hopefully will be answered when I keep reading the book.
The first section of 1984 left me with many questions and unfinished thoughts. My first question is about the dark haired girl. I was wondering who she was and what she wanted with Winston. Another character I want to know more about is Mr. Charrington. He is a very sketchy character. Why would he provoke Winston to write a diary? If he were a part of the inner party he would have told on Winston, but he didn’t. Also, I was left questioning about the three men who were captured, tortured, released back into society, and then captured again in the cafeteria. Why would they pick suck a public place to capture them. Why could the police just have gone to their homes and taken them. I think the police wanted too do it in a very public place so that they could show the public the consequences of breaking the laws. I have many unanswered question that hopefully will be answered when I keep reading the book.
Week 7
Machiavelli
Machiavelli wrote about qualities that he believe all princes should have in order to rule their kingdom properly. He based most of his methods on the emotions of the population. He mostly played on the emotion of fear. He believe that if you instilled fear into the people that they would be scared enough to listen to everything you say and scared enough not to challenge the thorn. One other main idea of his that I felt was important was the false reality that he tells the prince to create. This false reality includes things that he wants the general public to believe, yet that have no truth. An example would be that he said he wanted the public to believe that he cared for them, even though he didn’t. He used the word appear many times. He believes strongly in deception. I can relate his use of fear and deception to an episode of Dr. Phil I recently watched. There was a married man deceiving his wife by lying to her about the status of their relationship while this man was going off and having relation with a 17 year old female. He was also deceiving this 17 year old female by telling her that he loved her and was going to leave his wife for her once she turned 18, however had no intentions of doing so. He instilled the fear of him cheating and separation in his wife and also in the female. This was a sick man, but, in Machiavelli’s case it was very strategic and intelligent and I believe his qualities would make a great prince.
Machiavelli wrote about qualities that he believe all princes should have in order to rule their kingdom properly. He based most of his methods on the emotions of the population. He mostly played on the emotion of fear. He believe that if you instilled fear into the people that they would be scared enough to listen to everything you say and scared enough not to challenge the thorn. One other main idea of his that I felt was important was the false reality that he tells the prince to create. This false reality includes things that he wants the general public to believe, yet that have no truth. An example would be that he said he wanted the public to believe that he cared for them, even though he didn’t. He used the word appear many times. He believes strongly in deception. I can relate his use of fear and deception to an episode of Dr. Phil I recently watched. There was a married man deceiving his wife by lying to her about the status of their relationship while this man was going off and having relation with a 17 year old female. He was also deceiving this 17 year old female by telling her that he loved her and was going to leave his wife for her once she turned 18, however had no intentions of doing so. He instilled the fear of him cheating and separation in his wife and also in the female. This was a sick man, but, in Machiavelli’s case it was very strategic and intelligent and I believe his qualities would make a great prince.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Week 6
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
When reading the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, I felt empowered. The drive and passion for equal right and for the right to vote was amazing. To organize such a convention in that decade, without the permission of men, was a very threatening move. When she stated at the end of paragraph 3 “Such has been the patient sufferance of women under this government, and such is now…to demand the equal station to which they are entitled.” (E. Cady Stanton) it was interesting that after many years of striving to become what her brother never was, she gave up that dream and started to live her own life as the women she was, to create the equality that she was never granted. When reading this essay, I felt a relation to Mrs. E. Cady Stanton because as a young girl, I played hockey. It wasn’t known as, your now typical, Girls Hockey league. This was a league for boys, only boys. I have been playing hockey since the age of 3 and a Girl’s hockey league did not exist. I practice as much as I could to be as good, if not better, then the boys. I was discriminated against for many years because I was the only girl on the team. I felt a sense of understanding when Mrs. E. Cady Stanton said that she wanted to be just like her brother, as did I. I have an older brother who also played Travel hockey and I wanted to be just like him. I stuck it out many years playing for a ‘boys’ team until Windsor for a ‘girls’ Hockey league. Even though I was an outsider while playing for that team, I stuck it out, because of my love for the game. Now, due to girls like me, who didn’t quit, there are designated “women’s” dressing rooms in most arenas (instead of dressing in women’s washrooms) and girls are now accepted on “boys” teams, base on skills, not on gender.
The declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions to this day are helping women in small ways make a big difference. I thought the final resolution summed them all up by stating “That the speedy success of our cause depends upon the zealous and untiring efforts of both men and women…and for securing to women an equal participation with men in various trades, professions, and commerce.” (E. Cady Stanton) but in my case, sports as well.
When reading the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, I felt empowered. The drive and passion for equal right and for the right to vote was amazing. To organize such a convention in that decade, without the permission of men, was a very threatening move. When she stated at the end of paragraph 3 “Such has been the patient sufferance of women under this government, and such is now…to demand the equal station to which they are entitled.” (E. Cady Stanton) it was interesting that after many years of striving to become what her brother never was, she gave up that dream and started to live her own life as the women she was, to create the equality that she was never granted. When reading this essay, I felt a relation to Mrs. E. Cady Stanton because as a young girl, I played hockey. It wasn’t known as, your now typical, Girls Hockey league. This was a league for boys, only boys. I have been playing hockey since the age of 3 and a Girl’s hockey league did not exist. I practice as much as I could to be as good, if not better, then the boys. I was discriminated against for many years because I was the only girl on the team. I felt a sense of understanding when Mrs. E. Cady Stanton said that she wanted to be just like her brother, as did I. I have an older brother who also played Travel hockey and I wanted to be just like him. I stuck it out many years playing for a ‘boys’ team until Windsor for a ‘girls’ Hockey league. Even though I was an outsider while playing for that team, I stuck it out, because of my love for the game. Now, due to girls like me, who didn’t quit, there are designated “women’s” dressing rooms in most arenas (instead of dressing in women’s washrooms) and girls are now accepted on “boys” teams, base on skills, not on gender.
The declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions to this day are helping women in small ways make a big difference. I thought the final resolution summed them all up by stating “That the speedy success of our cause depends upon the zealous and untiring efforts of both men and women…and for securing to women an equal participation with men in various trades, professions, and commerce.” (E. Cady Stanton) but in my case, sports as well.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Week 5
Martha C. Naussbaum: The Central Human Functional Capabilities
Nussbaum is writing on the capabilities of humans. I agree with most of what she is saying when it comes to what people should have to have lived a full life. However, she describes some limitations to this happiness. If you have a handicap, for instance you are physically challenged or mentally challenged, to me it seems that she says that if you cannot fulfil these requirements you are not a complete person and you won’t have lives a full life and you are less of a human for it. Her approach is called a "capabilities approach" to development, which views capabilities or "substantial freedoms", such as the ability to live to old age, engage in economic transactions, participate in political activities, or have a healthy sexual relationship, as the constitutive parts of development, and poverty as capability-deprivation. I believed her view of humanity is skewed. If she never grew up in poverty, how would she know these people did not live a complete life? Everyone finds happiness in different things, whether it be with family, through sexual relationships, through religious affiliations, or any unlimited source. I know this is her take on what a good human life should be, however, a good human life to an older white woman, growing up in the United State and a good human life to someone living in a different part of the world can be completely different.
Nussbaum is writing on the capabilities of humans. I agree with most of what she is saying when it comes to what people should have to have lived a full life. However, she describes some limitations to this happiness. If you have a handicap, for instance you are physically challenged or mentally challenged, to me it seems that she says that if you cannot fulfil these requirements you are not a complete person and you won’t have lives a full life and you are less of a human for it. Her approach is called a "capabilities approach" to development, which views capabilities or "substantial freedoms", such as the ability to live to old age, engage in economic transactions, participate in political activities, or have a healthy sexual relationship, as the constitutive parts of development, and poverty as capability-deprivation. I believed her view of humanity is skewed. If she never grew up in poverty, how would she know these people did not live a complete life? Everyone finds happiness in different things, whether it be with family, through sexual relationships, through religious affiliations, or any unlimited source. I know this is her take on what a good human life should be, however, a good human life to an older white woman, growing up in the United State and a good human life to someone living in a different part of the world can be completely different.
Week 4
Dalai Lama: The Ethic of Compassion
When reading the Dalai Lama, I felt as though he was speaking to me. It wasn’t a feeling that I was being preached to or talked at. He is genuine in his words which makes this an easy read. He is giving people advice of things they should already know, such as, kindness, compassion and love. However, many people in today’s society seemed to have lost these three things while aging. Many people I meet, including myself, do not practice these 3 values. Without these 3 values, people have become selfish and self centered. He also says;
"I believe our every-day experience confirms that a self-centred attitude towards problems can be destructive not only towards society, but to the individual as well. Selfishness does not solve problems for us, it multiplies them. Accepting responsibility and maintaining respect for other will leave all concerned at peace. This is the essence of Mahayana Buddhism." –Dalai Lama
I believe that this statement sums up today’s society and how far away from universal peace we have become. This statement was the point in his excerpt that I just stopped to think about the things that I have done recently and in the past that are very self-centered and I actually felt upset for my actions.
I enjoyed how the Ethics of Compassion can be applied to anyone, regardless of their culture, race or religion. His mission is for universal peace and if everyone practiced compassion, kindness and love for one another, the world might be a couple steps closer to universal peace.
When reading the Dalai Lama, I felt as though he was speaking to me. It wasn’t a feeling that I was being preached to or talked at. He is genuine in his words which makes this an easy read. He is giving people advice of things they should already know, such as, kindness, compassion and love. However, many people in today’s society seemed to have lost these three things while aging. Many people I meet, including myself, do not practice these 3 values. Without these 3 values, people have become selfish and self centered. He also says;
"I believe our every-day experience confirms that a self-centred attitude towards problems can be destructive not only towards society, but to the individual as well. Selfishness does not solve problems for us, it multiplies them. Accepting responsibility and maintaining respect for other will leave all concerned at peace. This is the essence of Mahayana Buddhism." –Dalai Lama
I believe that this statement sums up today’s society and how far away from universal peace we have become. This statement was the point in his excerpt that I just stopped to think about the things that I have done recently and in the past that are very self-centered and I actually felt upset for my actions.
I enjoyed how the Ethics of Compassion can be applied to anyone, regardless of their culture, race or religion. His mission is for universal peace and if everyone practiced compassion, kindness and love for one another, the world might be a couple steps closer to universal peace.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Week 3
Charles Darwin:
Darwin's theory of Natural Selection basically states that only the strong and fittest survive. The source of strength may be physical or mental, but the dominant survive. If a certain thing is not suited for the task at hand, it will fail and be overpowered by that which has been designed for the specific task. Therefore the one who is dominant will receive the glory that accompanies power and the one who fails will miss out. This causes the weak to dye off and the dominate one to strive for ultimate power and dominance. The resulting population will be entirely made of the species with the dominate trait. This will continue until a mutation occurs that benefits the species, which is called evolution.
This theory can be related to many things but I am choosing to relate it to the evolution of the car. When the car was first built, it was basically an engine, 4 tires, a steering wheel and a bench seat. Due to the evolution of technology, a car is now considered luxury at it's finest in some cases. Due to the process of evolution, it went from being completely basic to having all the bells and whistles along with satellite T.V.
Stephen Gould
In his theory of nonmoral nature, he is stating that the behaviors of animals in nature, has presented theologians with an exacting dilemma: " If god is good and if creation reveals his goodness, why do natures victims suffer?" In his argument he states that animals are ruthless and efficient predators that infect pain on essentially helpless prey. his theory is about predators, dealing with good vs. bad and morality vs. ethics. He explains that animals do not have a sense of good and bad (morals/ethics) because they are just that, animals. They base their way of thinking on instinct. The one thing they know. It is just a way of survival. It is either kill or be killed. An example he uses is the wasp. this certain wasp implants it's larvae in certain insects so they can grow. However, while using these insects as hosts for their growing process, they eat the insects from the inside out, but save their vital organs for last so the insect can survive as long as possible. Gould explains that evolution and the animal kingdom has nothing to do with the moral and ethical code that is set in place by humans. He does not take away the fact that animals have the ability to learn, they just do not have a conscious like humans do. Humans and animals have different values and they are not interconnected. Animals cannot be placed on the same level as humans with cognitive skill and abilities.
When relating this theory to real life, I can relate it to an encounter i had recently in a cashier's line at Target. I was shopping with my mother and we were waiting in the line to check out when a small boy approximately 6-7 years old turned are and was covered in bandages on his face. He also had a patch on his eye. Being curious, my mother started a conversation with this little Boy trying to find out what had happened. We ended up finding out that it was due to a sever dog bit from their family pet. This "domestic" dog was a part of their family for many years. During those years, the family developed a false reality, deeming the dog safe, domesticated and harmless. Obviously this false reality became a true reality after the child was bitten. The child exclaimed that the dog was "bad and didn't listen". If the parents would have remembered that a dog is an animal and survives on instinct, then maybe they could have prevented this from happening. I believe this is what Gould is trying to say, no matter how much effort you put into an animal to teach it trick and to be "well behaved", it is essentially still and animal and strives on instinct.
Brave New World:
The Brave New World excerpts gave a brief introduction to the novel. The basic concept of this novel is that they are using technology to have control over their society. They create these mechanisms to control the overall stability of the world. They also control reproduction with technology. They do this by removing the ovaries and mass-producing humans in incubating bottles as needed. When the humans are being created, they have a Hierarchy in which they must follow. The Hierarchy starts with the Alpha, beta and deceases. The higher on the chain one is, the more creativity and individuality one can express. The lowest species on the chain is basically a machine in a human's body. They perform a process of elector shock, which conditions the babies to act in a certain way and do certain things. They call this conditioning. As adults, they are conditioned to act according to the benefit of the larger community and the higher powers.
Darwin's theory of Natural Selection basically states that only the strong and fittest survive. The source of strength may be physical or mental, but the dominant survive. If a certain thing is not suited for the task at hand, it will fail and be overpowered by that which has been designed for the specific task. Therefore the one who is dominant will receive the glory that accompanies power and the one who fails will miss out. This causes the weak to dye off and the dominate one to strive for ultimate power and dominance. The resulting population will be entirely made of the species with the dominate trait. This will continue until a mutation occurs that benefits the species, which is called evolution.
This theory can be related to many things but I am choosing to relate it to the evolution of the car. When the car was first built, it was basically an engine, 4 tires, a steering wheel and a bench seat. Due to the evolution of technology, a car is now considered luxury at it's finest in some cases. Due to the process of evolution, it went from being completely basic to having all the bells and whistles along with satellite T.V.
Stephen Gould
In his theory of nonmoral nature, he is stating that the behaviors of animals in nature, has presented theologians with an exacting dilemma: " If god is good and if creation reveals his goodness, why do natures victims suffer?" In his argument he states that animals are ruthless and efficient predators that infect pain on essentially helpless prey. his theory is about predators, dealing with good vs. bad and morality vs. ethics. He explains that animals do not have a sense of good and bad (morals/ethics) because they are just that, animals. They base their way of thinking on instinct. The one thing they know. It is just a way of survival. It is either kill or be killed. An example he uses is the wasp. this certain wasp implants it's larvae in certain insects so they can grow. However, while using these insects as hosts for their growing process, they eat the insects from the inside out, but save their vital organs for last so the insect can survive as long as possible. Gould explains that evolution and the animal kingdom has nothing to do with the moral and ethical code that is set in place by humans. He does not take away the fact that animals have the ability to learn, they just do not have a conscious like humans do. Humans and animals have different values and they are not interconnected. Animals cannot be placed on the same level as humans with cognitive skill and abilities.
When relating this theory to real life, I can relate it to an encounter i had recently in a cashier's line at Target. I was shopping with my mother and we were waiting in the line to check out when a small boy approximately 6-7 years old turned are and was covered in bandages on his face. He also had a patch on his eye. Being curious, my mother started a conversation with this little Boy trying to find out what had happened. We ended up finding out that it was due to a sever dog bit from their family pet. This "domestic" dog was a part of their family for many years. During those years, the family developed a false reality, deeming the dog safe, domesticated and harmless. Obviously this false reality became a true reality after the child was bitten. The child exclaimed that the dog was "bad and didn't listen". If the parents would have remembered that a dog is an animal and survives on instinct, then maybe they could have prevented this from happening. I believe this is what Gould is trying to say, no matter how much effort you put into an animal to teach it trick and to be "well behaved", it is essentially still and animal and strives on instinct.
Brave New World:
The Brave New World excerpts gave a brief introduction to the novel. The basic concept of this novel is that they are using technology to have control over their society. They create these mechanisms to control the overall stability of the world. They also control reproduction with technology. They do this by removing the ovaries and mass-producing humans in incubating bottles as needed. When the humans are being created, they have a Hierarchy in which they must follow. The Hierarchy starts with the Alpha, beta and deceases. The higher on the chain one is, the more creativity and individuality one can express. The lowest species on the chain is basically a machine in a human's body. They perform a process of elector shock, which conditions the babies to act in a certain way and do certain things. They call this conditioning. As adults, they are conditioned to act according to the benefit of the larger community and the higher powers.
Week 2
Bacon
When it comes to Bacon's four Idols, the first thing that popped into my mind was the movie 'Mean Girls'. I know this movie is about teenage popularity, however, I will make it relate to the 4 four Idols of Bacon.
Tribe:
When it come to the tribe aspect, Bacon describes the tribe as; people trying to make things fit into patterns, people looking for evidence to support their conclusions, people who don't like to think deeply, that people are affected by what they want to believe, that people have senses that can fool them--they see what they expect to see not whats actually in front of them.
Relating this to the movie, a school can also be seen as a tribe. People are all in one location ultimately doing the same thing, learning. They don't do this by choice, they are pressured to go to school by their elders. It is a learned concept, once you finish middle school, you move on to a greater place of education. This would be a part of making things fit into a pattern. Now when it comes to the students, there was a particular group in the movie called the "plastics". These girls would be seen as a higher power in a group or tribe. They didn't earn this so called 'power'; they got this power through other people thinking that they are the cool ones. Once they received the title of plastics, the student body placed them on a pedestal and convinced themselves that they were the ultimate description of what a girl is supposed to look and act. Their senses played tricks on them making them believe false thoughts, which no one ever challenges. It then creates a false reality the is generally accepted through out the tribe or school.
Cave:
The cave deals with individuality. Bacon said that; individuals favor ideas that support previous conclusions, and some individuals favor differences; others favor similarities, some individuals favor antiquity; others favor novelty.
In the movie, anything that the plastics do just solidifies their position in the tree of power. The student body supports basically anything and everything the girls do, not because it right or it's the ethical/moral thing to do, but because of their position in their tribe or school. However, as you see in the movie, there are several groups within their school. They have the preps, Asian nerds, band geeks, junior varsity jocks, and the "cool" kids among others. However, each group ultimately tries to imitate the plastics in some way or another. This is why all the groups are interrelated in many ways without knowing it, creating one unit.
Marketplace: Words that have a range of meanings.
A perfect example of the marketplace would be the scene when Cady (played by Lindsey Lohan) is new to the school and is asked but the plastics to sit at their designated lunch table, which is reserved for only them, unless they invite someone to sit with them. When she is having a conversation with the main character, Regina George (played by Rachel McAdams), Regina blurts out "Shut Up!" meaning in her terms Now Way! or Oh My Gosh!. However, in Cady's definition of "Shut Up!" mean be quite or stop talking. One of these meanings is positive and one is negative. However, if not exposed to a certain meaning, one might take is offensively, just as Cady did. This is a perfect example of Bacon's marketplace.
Theater: Understanding based on a system of philosophy, theology, or tradition.
Through out the movie people never question the popularity pf the plastics. This is so because a certain level of hierarchy must always be attained to have a working system. There always has to be someone better, until ultimate perfection is acquired. This can also be viewed as a tradition. In every school there is always one group that has greater popularity then others. In this movie, it happened to be the plastics.
Montaigne:
His essay was on the education of Children. His philosophy, as I understood it, stated it is better to teach a child the essentials that they need for survival then send them on a journey to find them and acquire knowledge through experiences and challenges. He was very opposed to just forcing information into a child's head expecting them to learn and understand everything. He is also an advocate of a physical journey along with the intellectual journey.
Montaigne's concept can be related to the "College experience". When one goes to college, they escape all of the rules set forth by their parents and become free. When they move away, they are independent to do whatever they choose. Through experiences, good and bad, they learn valuable lessons of life. The choices the students make will determine the direction of their future. Students also have a physical journey once they have reached College. Many students are potentially meeting their future mates and need or want to portray a certain image. By having a certain image of themselves in mind, they may choose to go to a fitness center, run or take aerobic classes to reach their goal image. This will also help them in determining their future.
Plato
He wrote the Allegory of the Cave. In this essay 2 main concepts were the analogy of the divided line and the metaphor of the sun. I would relate this theory to something in my life, however, I don't completely understand the concept that Plato is trying to explain.
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