Allegory Of The Cave Essay

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In this week’s reading we are concentrating on The Matrix, Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave,” and Descartes “The Meditations on First Philosophy,”. Reality is something that many people have to be able to physically see, touch, hear and feel, but reality is much more than that. Reality can be something that is observed and comprehended. In this week’s assignment we are discovering the similarities and differences between the readings and how they relate in reality.
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The readings in this week’s assignment, The Matrix, “The Allegory of the Cave,” and “The Meditations on First Philosophy,” all three readings seem to have one very important detail that is similar. The question that always seem to elude us and that is “what is real in this life?” This question has been studied and answered in so many ways and by so many different people from all walks of life. This subject is one that is most popular in the world of philosophy. We see this question in so many different ways and styles in today’s society. We see it in the writing that we read such as, “The Allegory of the Cave,” and “The Meditations on First Philosophy,” and the TV and the movies that we watch, such as The Matrix. Such readings and movies as allow us to dream about what if …show more content…

How would we feel if we found out that everything that we have been taught and been thinking our whole life was not the case? I imagine we would be pretty devastated and what to know what happened to our world. The idea of The Allegory of the Cave is a similar concept to The Matrix in that what the people perceived to be true in their world really is not the case at all. In Meditations on First Philosophy, the writer Descartes ask the questions, what is true in our world? So we can agree that the similarity in all these reading is the questioning of life and the reality of

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