A Comparison Of Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

In Plato's Cave, the prisoners are tied down with chains, hand, and foot under bondage. In fact they have been there since their childhood, which much like matrix people are seen as in reality being bound within a pad whereby they are feed images/illusions which keep them in a dreamlike state and they have been in this bondage by virtue of the virtual reality pads in the fields since their youth and like the allegory of the Cave they are completely unaware of such a predicament since in regards to the Cave they have become conditioned to the shadows that dance upon the wall and do not see the true forms of which the shadow is a mere non-substantial pattern of. In the Matrix, within the person of the virtual world, it is a non-substantial pattern of the world, it is reflective of the real world, it is a shadow in its form and nature being a simulation of the world at a particular point in history. Like the prisoners in the cave, those who are prisoners in the system of a matrix are held in their calm state by reason of the illusion that stimulates them and tricks them into remaining asleep or rather into being ignorant of the fact that they are prisoners in pads so the machines can feed on their bio-energy. The shadows on the wall which are reflective is to keep the prisoners on the Cave unaware of the fact that they are prisoners, that they are under bondage and have never truly seen life outside of the Cave. The shadows on the walls are by puppets, perchance puppeteers. They could be seen as the agents, whom within the Matrix being programs are to maintain that the humans asleep in the matrix remain in their comatose state, they are to support the illusion, by keeping man actively ignorant of what is truly happening, so they never wake up. The puppeteers of the puppets which are seen on the wall to keep the mind of the prisoners stimulated so they never realize that they are chained, and only have a vision that is straightforward, which is basically saying their minds are only subjected to a single perspective and they are blind to the degree of seeing within other perspectives, broader perspectives and this in and of itself is a limitation.

The first thing that we will discuss is the project the Descartes assigns himself in the first meditation. Descartes has a realization that many of the things that he accepted as truths in his past have actually turned out to be false. This realization

This is comparison to the essay when Plato quotes “ Will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away?” (Plato 285). This is simply a comparison of words. When the prisoners from the cave come out and experience a new world, their eyes will hurt because they have never seen outside the shadows on the wall. Neo experiences a new world and his eyes hurt because he's never used them before. Many quotes from “The Allegory of the Cave” were used in the movie The Matrix. This is one of the many comparisons between “The Allegory of the Cave” and The

Descartes' overall objective in Meditations on First Philosophy is to question knowledge. To explore such issues as the existence of God and the separation of mind and body, it was important for him to distinguish what we can know as truth. He believed that reason as opposed to experience was the source for discovering what is of absolute certainty. In Meditation Two, Descartes embarks on his journey of truth. I find, in Meditation Two that Descartes has accomplished part of his journey, in that only the intellect perceives the material world.

The Matrix, The Allegory of The Cave, and Meditation I of the Things of Which We May Doubt all confidently state that reality is not what it seems. The Matrix is about a computer that runs a simulation of the real world and the whole population is hooked up to this computer stuck in a simulation. The Allegory of the Cave exemplifies humans (representing mankind) in a cave transfixed in one spot. The people in the cave are stuck watching puppets of everything of the Earth and perceive the world from only what they see. Lastly, Meditation I of the Things of Which We May Doubt illustrates the mind-body problem and Descartes goes into his own doubts that he has from opinions that he held true without giving proper

Descartes wonders what would actually give him reason to doubt all of his beliefs. He concludes that there is an evil demon whose purpose is to trick him into thinking that all of

In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, there are these prisoners that live in a cave and have never seen any natural sunlight. They can only see shadows of things displayed on the wall by the light coming from the fire. The prisoners get happy and interested by the shadows they see. The shadows could be of humans, objects, animals, or even plants. They see them as real, whereas, we see them as just shadows. One day, a prisoner goes out into the real world. He is blinded by the sunlight, so after his eyes adjust, he realizes that the shadows that were being shown in the cave aren’t actually real and that all the real objects are outside of the cave. Objects like plants, colors of what the animals look like, animals, tree, and even stars. Plato puts it as, “Previously he had been looking

Though unstated throughout his meditations, Descartes primary goal in the Meditations is to lay a strong foundation for the mathematical science that is emerging during his lifetime. There are two Aristotelian doctrines that Descartes wants to reject, the first which is final causation. The second is qualitative science, because Descartes tends to favor quantitative science over final causation. In Descartes’s first meditation his method of doubt is seen clearly since he knows that he believes same false things, but he doesn’t know which of his beliefs are fake.. Descartes is in search of something that cannot be doubted to serve as a secure foundation or knowledge, and we cannot doubt all our beliefs one by one. In the first meditation Descartes attacks the foundations of his knowledge, but slowly he’s foundations will fall. Descartes has three foundations in which he will challenge, the first which challenges his perceptual illusion, the second which is the dreaming state, and the third, which is the evil demon.

In 390 B.C. a man named Plato wrote a series of books called The Republic. The Republic is written by Plato but is spoken through his teacher Socrates. This series is composed of ten different books all having to do with the idea of justice and why us as humans should we be just. In Book VII Plato created one of the most famous and beautiful metaphors in Western philosophy, known as “the allegory of the cave”. The cave is described by Plato as a very dark scene with a group of people in it all of which are chained up that have never seen the outside world, all they know of is shadows casted upon the wall by a fire behind them.

The Matrix share’s similar views on Rene Descartes thought of reality, this becomes more clear when Morpheus asks Neo “Have you ever had a dream that was so real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the real world and the dream?” (31:27-31:47) This suggests much like Rene Descartes idea that it is unknown if we are truly awake or if we are simply dreaming a never-ending

Descartes thought that as logic may be deceived, so can our senses be manipulated. He could not be certain that he was sitting in a chair, or merely dreaming of it but just by doubting if he existed he realised that his thinking is the very proof of his being.

The popular movie The Matrix, Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy and Plato’s The Republic have more in common than you would think at quick glance. They all examine the theory that our world is an illusion and question the connection between our senses and reality. The clearest similarity between these works is the doubt of the reality of our world and questioning the reliability of our senses.

In the “The Allegory of the Cave,” Plato, the author of this story, tries to say that humans, not physically but mentally. The humans tend to ignore reality, when is is right near us. In the story, Plato refers to the other people in the cave as the puppet-handlers since they are the ones holding the prisoners in the cave captive. As they control what the prisoners are watching and believing. They control what the prisoners see. This idea is similar to the Matrix because they can only see what the programmers choose to show them (The puppet- handlers). This can perhaps mean that our reality is limited as people also control what we see. “The Allegory of the Cave” and “The Matrix,” does not sense what the true world is. In the story, the only true understanding and explanation of the real world is what they see in the shadows and in the movie, this is brought to them by the machines. In the Matrix, Neo is finally confronted with the surrounding of the real world as he becomes so overwhelmed that he passes out. Just like when the prisoner is released, and the prisoner was only exposed to the shadows in the cave, made by the local people. In the movie Neo acts like the prisoner, who has been released from the

In “Mediations” Descartes argues that in order to have knowledge about something you shouldn’t be able to doubt it. He does so by using the method of doubt, you have to take all your beliefs and subject them to doubt. If you can doubt your beliefs, even a little, then they are deemed false. Descartes gives two strong arguments to support his argument which are the dream hypothesis, the idea that you might actually be asleep instead of being awake, and the evil demon hypothesis, the idea that an evil demon is committed to deceiving you to make everything you think you know false. In this paper, I will argue that I both agree and disagree with Descartes, but let’s first get into the background of Descartes ideas.

If there’s evil demons exist, then everything could be false, even with the supreme power of god, or even the idea of god could be the evil deceiver placing the false idea into our