Descartes, and The Matrix After reading the Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, I realized that it endures a significant similarity to The Matrix whereas the two share nearly identical metaphysical themes and hypothetical assumptions regarding the reality of nature, the experience in the world, and the chance of illusion. At first, the ‘two world’ theory is the main theme that goes through The Matrix and the Allegory of the Cave. The existence of two worlds is what this philosophy theorizes, mainly
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could find… a cave! To truly describe this cave, you would have to go in, as I did, and see it for yourself. I had to get down on my hands and knees and slowly crawl in, like an animal, with my head scraping the top of the cave hole. When I got to a place where I could just barely get up on my knees, I looked around inside the dark cave and, with a little sunlight piercing through, I saw the faces of hundreds of men, women, and children… even little babies that had been born in the cave. They were sitting
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Evaluation: Strengths… * Psychologists have shown that our brain filters sensory information, proving how unreliable it can be * Science and Plato both use logic and reasoning to explain the laws of nature and events within nature * Empirical knowledge can be flawed Weaknesses * Aristotle argues that knowledge comes from our senses * Psychologists state that the majority of our knowledge come from our senses proving that sensory knowledge is also factual * Science has argues
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Tina Bai Knowledge, Reality, Self Professor Georg Theiner 10/1/12 The Implication of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” In The Republic, Plato reveals the overwhelming ignorance of humanity through the allegory of the cave. Plato summarizes his viewpoint of society as a whole through this allegory, portraying the human race as imprisoned in the chains of oblivion, unaware of its own inhibited perspective. A more contemporary philosopher, Umberto Eco, also criticized the state of society in a
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Plato’s analogy begins in a cave. The cave is meant to represent the physical world or the world of sense experience. A number of prisoners are bound by their necks and legs so that they cannot turn around. They have been this way since birth and know no other life than this. Behind the prisoners are a low wall, a walkway and a fire that burns. From time to time individuals carry objects like marionettes in front of the fire and shadows are cast against the wall in front of them. The prisoners observe
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wild bay. Then he meets some local boys who dive into the water and swim through a underwater cave. He tries to follow, “Down he went, until he touched the wall of the rock again. But the salt was so painful in his eyes that he could not see.” (p.3, lines 14-15). The threshold guardian is something that is preventing the hero from entering the special world (which in this case is the wild bay/underwater cave). This quote demonstrates the threshold guardian element because it creates a physical barrier
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Allegory / Matrix? Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” and the Matrix are similar in many ways, that in which both stories revolve around human beings living in an unrealistic manner and not knowing the truth of the world that we all live in. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, we read a story about prisoners who live in a cave, and are forced to stare at the wall in front of them due to having their bodies chained to a wall. All they are able to see is the shadows that project onto the wall in front
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investigate. The Cave of Polyphemus Odysseus and his men soon found a great cave, far from the other caves of the Cyclopes. The cave was full of round cheeses and pens with lambs and young goats. His men urged Odysseus to steal the cheeses and goats and flee, but he wanted to see the giant for himself. Instead, they built a fire, made a sacrifice to the Gods and ate some cheese. Polyphemus Returns The Cyclops returned, herding his sheep and goats ahead of him into the cave. He placed a huge rock
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Allegory of the Cave is a synopsis of The Republic where people live their whole lives in the opening of a cave. The prisoner’s feet and necks are chained so they cannot leave or even turn their heads. Their whole lives the only truth they know is shadow figures that puppet masters cast on a wall before them. Eventually a prisoner is set free to explore the “real” world around them. He is blinded by the light that was once behind them, frightened by the thought of leaving the cave but is able to see
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school is seen as resistance to enlightenment, laziness, and inability in the students’ part. However, it cannot be that a system designed for the future is loathed by the future. Even though it is not a science that would have definite results, Plato’s cave allegory can help us gain deeper insight about the school system by simplifying the topic without losing the abstract parts of it. In school, students are fixated on a shadow reality, a world that is far from real, yet treated as absolute even by
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