Plato describes prisoners chained in a cave facing the cave wall only able to see shadows of the people passing by. The prisoners think that the shadows are real and not the object themselves since all they’ve ever seen was shadows. The prisoners believed that the shadows were “people along the wall, carrying all kinds of artifacts that project above it statues of people and other animals, made out of stone, wood, and every material.” Plato ponders that if one of the prisoners had left the cave, seeing what’s really there to see in the world, would going back have as much meaning to the prisoner being that the others are now different than him and can see better in the dark. As we discussed in class the purpose of this is to talk about how things in the real world appear deceptively.
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Professor: Jessica Penner
Email: jpenner@citytech.cuny.edu
Class Meetings & Times: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10-11:40am in Namm 521
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1-2pm, in Namm 506 (the First Year Programs office)
Course Description: A course in effective essay writing and basic research techniques including use of the library. Demanding readings assigned for classroom discussion and as a basis for essay writing.
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New York City College of Technology, C.U.N.Y
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