Melissa A. Reeves Plato‚ Descartes‚ and The Matrix Essay 02/14/2014 Phil 201-B15 Liberty University Professor Ronald Kuykendall In comparing the movie The Matrix and the readings from Plato and Descartes‚ the major similarity found among the three is deception. It is the deception of the mind that these excerpts deal with. The idea of being in an illusion or reality is addressed. All three take into account sense perceptions. Also‚ all three have an outside influence that is controlling the
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In Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy‚ I will be considering the “dreaming argument” if Descartes’s resolution seems acceptable to believe. In the First Meditation is where the “dreaming argument” is first mentioned and then later he has resolved the argument in the Sixth Meditation and the Objections and Replies. I will be touching on the idea that our experiences could be dreaming experiences based on personal experiences and thoughts I have had on the topic. Then I will go on to explain
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1 In Meditation 1‚ one of the main premises that Descartes uses in his proof for the existence of God comes from the evil demon argument. The purpose of Descartes evil demon is to established doubt upon his belief that God is the sole figure who puts thoughts into his mind. A God that he believes to be omnipotent and a supremely good being‚ not being capable of deceiving him or force falsehood upon him. In the evil demon argument Descartes does not deny the existence of God. But rather makes
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For Descartes‚ you cannot be sure of one’s existence or its reality so first you must doubt it. But as we see through his work Meditations on First Philosophy‚ we are presented by his loosening grip on his own sanity since he had continued to doubt and never accepting to believe in other realities but only is certain of his own existence. Descartes gave the awareness that to doubt is to know and to know is to doubt. He had known that he exists because he can think‚ and he cannot doubt that he can
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shot-in-the-dark‚ lucky guess. Therefore‚ beyond truth and belief‚ knowledge requires evidence. The question is‚ how much evidence does knowledge require? This is where controversy arises… In order for somebody to know something without a shadow of a doubt‚ does not the evidence have to be complete? In other words‚ is evidence ever adequate if it is not 100% complete? Furthermore‚ is it even possible to know a proposition if there is anything less than every single bit of evidence required of that proposition
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In his first meditation‚ Descartes proposes that there is no way for a person to tell whether or not they are always dreaming. “I see so plainly that there are no definitive signs by which to distinguish being awake from being asleep” (Descartes 10). According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy‚ Descartes holds dreams in the received view of dreaming‚ better understood as sleep in folk psychology. The received view‚ in addition to maintaining that dreams are experiences that occur during
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their own purpose. Two specific Philosophers who go by the names of Rene Descartes and Anselm penetrate into the existence of God. When both men tried to discover the truth of “God’s existence”‚ they would find themselves in a confounding predicament. Both Descartes and Anselm wanted to assist their readers in finding the truth in our existence by leading them towards the idea that God does in fact exist. Even though both Descartes and Anselm acknowledge
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Rene Descartes and God’s Existence Rene Descartes was a French philosopher‚ mathematician and a scientist in the seventeenth century. As a man of science‚ Descartes wanted to make discoveries in science as factual as mathematics. With Descartes’s faith‚ he did not eliminate God from philosophy. Descartes‚ “The Father of Modern Philosophy”‚ was a Catholic who wrote the Meditations on First Philosophy. “The Meditations is characterized by Descartes’s use of methodic doubt‚ a systematic procedure
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When reading The Matrix‚ Plato‚ and Descartes‚ it reminds us of the reality we knew before Christ. It can sometimes seem like nothing is missing for some time‚ and when you come to know Him through His Word‚ there can often be three reactions. When confronted with the Truth everyone has the opportunity to make their own choice‚ one person can prefer to go back to their own truth they knew‚ go in search of other truths‚ or they can choose to accept the Truth and not want anything else than to go and
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Salt Lake City Best Sports City Without Doubt! While many computer games have turned today’s young ones into small couch potatoes: Salt Lake City Games is looking to change all of that. Wii‚ or just called "Wii" by many folks‚ is an interactive action-based video game you connect to your TV. We asked them to select two (2) athletics to play within an organized league. Here the discipline of the game and learning how to cope properly with adult authority added to their overall increase. Never did
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