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Plato's allegory of the cave by Jan Saenredam, according to Cornelis van Haarlem, 1604, Albertina, Vienna. Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature".
The Matrix is an example of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. [8] The Wachowskis' approach to action scenes was influenced by anime [9] and martial arts films (particularly fight choreographers and wire fu techniques from Hong Kong action cinema); other influences include Plato's cave and 1990s Telnet hacker communities.
Films based on the allegory of the cave by Plato. In the allegory, Plato describes people who have spent their lives chained in a cave and facing a blank wall. They watch shadows projected onto the wall by objects passing in front of a fire behind them, and they give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality but not ...
The films' premise resembles Plato's Allegory of the cave, René Descartes's evil demon, Kant's reflections on the Phenomenon versus the Ding an sich, Zhuangzi's "Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly", Marxist social theory and the brain in a vat thought experiment.
There is an illustrated interpretation of Plato's allegory of the cave in the graphic novel Blankets (2003), by Craig Thompson. There is slight representation of Plato's allegory of the cave in The Tale of Despereaux (2003) by Kate DiCamillo between characters Despereaux and Roscuro.
In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, we are like prisoners chained in a cave who see only the shadows cast by the Forms and think the shadows, rather than the hidden Forms, are real. Painting of Plato's cave by Michiel Coxie, circa 1540. Plato's Theory of Forms asserts that the world which appears to our senses derives from the perfect, unchanging ...
Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed ...
[1] [2] There has been much debate over this topic in the philosophical discourse, and regarding practical applications in computing. In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed the simulation argument , which suggests that if a civilization becomes capable of creating conscious simulations , it could generate so many simulated beings that a ...