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Athavan Balendran
8/12/2012 10:20:22 am
1. The ideas that are shared between the cave allegory and the matrix are nearly the same. They both talk the limits of what we know and how we know. They also explore many different types of realities. The cave allegory suggests that if someone spends their whole life on something and knows of nothing else does it in turn actually exist. For the matrix, the people have spent generations living life how even we think it is today yet little do they know their is a greater power that is controlling them and using them for their own benefit. This really makes one think about what could possibly be out there and beyond our reach. Whether or not there are limits to what we know or ever will know are also important things to look at.
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Mr. Smith
8/13/2012 10:42:01 pm
Good point about focusing on questions that can be solved. I once took the same position in an introduction to philosophy course and dismissed 400 years of post-enlightenment philosophy. Didn`t turn out well.
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Anna Pearson
8/13/2012 01:58:41 am
1) What ideas are shared in the cave allegory and The Matrix?
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Mr. Smith
8/13/2012 10:39:46 pm
Good observations. I liked how when the one prisoner who went outside came back to the cave and tried to describe the outside world, no one could understand him.
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Pedro Paulo
8/14/2012 10:23:15 am
Matrix and Plato’s Tale of the Cave
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Mr. Smith
8/14/2012 11:10:29 pm
Excellent post.
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Thiago Gatto
8/22/2012 04:37:27 am
The Allegory of The Cave and the Matrix
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Rodrigo Pereira
8/22/2012 07:28:48 am
1. The Allegory of the Cave and the Matrix share the idea that there is another reality beyond the one we know of and that the ones that don't know the other reality exist doesn't make it less real. In the allegory of the cave, the prisoner only believes on what he sees, and as one of them leaves and comes back to tell them the truth they don't believe and think it is unreal. In the Matrix everyone has lived a life that they were forced to believe which actually some of them know that they have been being used by a greater force over generations. This ideas and reality that we leave does not make us aware of everything, we should always be looking forward to discover new realities.
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Sarah Godoy
9/3/2012 01:52:23 pm
1. Plato’s allegory of the cave and The Matrix basically share the same principle of the battle of internal reality versus the external world. They both suggest that people’s perspectives are directly limited by the extent of their world. Therefore, the shadows generated by the fire in opposition to the people that passed outside of the cave were considered to be the only reality by the prisoners who had never left the cave and this caused them not to believe in their companion when he told them what waited for them outside. They could not believe in the existence of an outside reality when their internal world was limited to what they saw inside of the cave. The same happens in The Matrix, as Neil refuses to believe that there is an outer world to that he lived in during the day. Therefore, both of them suggest that if you really want to reach the ultimate reality, you need to “go out of the cave” and investigate the unknown, external truth.
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Marina
9/3/2012 11:44:29 pm
In both The Matrix and the allegory of the cave, it is possible to see that the characters can only believe in the reality that they have lived in. The characters have not met another reality and cannot believe any other reality that is presented to them. The Matrix and the allegory of the cave share the same ideas that I also agree with. Humans are used to one reality and they are not able to deal with a new reality. Both films show how humans have a hard time dealing with new concepts that were always said to be untrue. As has been shown through history, humans take a longer time to adapt to new things and new ideas. The human mind is so used to one thing and so convinced that they know the absolute truth that they cannot deal with not knowing something, in the universe. Both, The Matrix and the allegory of the cave, show a summary of what humans mind work and how human prefer to remain ignorant rather than admitting that they do not know everything in the world, and that they have a chance of being wrong.
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