Is Life Real?
Is life real?
Through my analysis of both the articles I found many parallels in both accounts about whether the reality we face is true or if it’s a falsehood. In the movie the “Matrix” it deals with the reality that we face and how it’s been a lie for most of the average person’s life. The movie deals with a character whose name is “Mr. Anderson” aka Neo and how he has been living a double life, one as a computer programmer and the other as a hacker during the night. He has a run in with a man name Morpheus who shows him that the “true” reality that he knows as truth is a lie and that all of mankind is living a lie as they are all plugged into a central hub that displays a reality in which isn’t true. This group deals with setting people’s minds free and showing what the real truth is and how the mind can only truly be free when they are not dependent on the matrix. The one issue that the average person does deal with is having their mind set free and how this is too much for some people to deal with, because it’s so much for the average mind to deal with and it’s evident in the case of Cypher and how he wants to go back to living a lie that only the Matrix can offer.
While “The Allegory of the Cave” is an allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to illustrate “our nature in its education and want of education”. The allegory of the cave is written as a fictitious discussion between Socrates and Glaucon. Plato envisions a group of people who have lived chained in a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people observe shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to attribute forms to these shadows. According to Plato, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to seeing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to realize that the shadows on the wall are not constitutive of reality at all, as he can perceive the
Through my analysis of both the articles I found many parallels in both accounts about whether the reality we face is true or if it’s a falsehood. In the movie the “Matrix” it deals with the reality that we face and how it’s been a lie for most of the average person’s life. The movie deals with a character whose name is “Mr. Anderson” aka Neo and how he has been living a double life, one as a computer programmer and the other as a hacker during the night. He has a run in with a man name Morpheus who shows him that the “true” reality that he knows as truth is a lie and that all of mankind is living a lie as they are all plugged into a central hub that displays a reality in which isn’t true. This group deals with setting people’s minds free and showing what the real truth is and how the mind can only truly be free when they are not dependent on the matrix. The one issue that the average person does deal with is having their mind set free and how this is too much for some people to deal with, because it’s so much for the average mind to deal with and it’s evident in the case of Cypher and how he wants to go back to living a lie that only the Matrix can offer.
While “The Allegory of the Cave” is an allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to illustrate “our nature in its education and want of education”. The allegory of the cave is written as a fictitious discussion between Socrates and Glaucon. Plato envisions a group of people who have lived chained in a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people observe shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to attribute forms to these shadows. According to Plato, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to seeing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to realize that the shadows on the wall are not constitutive of reality at all, as he can perceive the
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