![]() ![]() ![]() Because they have been stuck in this position for all their lives, this is how they perceive their world to be. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave describes a set of circumstances in which humans have been trapped in a cave their entire life, with their only connection to the real world being the shadows cast on the wall they face by a burning fire behind them. Likewise, The Truman Show bears resemblances to First Meditations in respect to its exploration of one man’s transition from trust to doubt in the world presented to him. It correlates with the idea of man’s ignorance, and his escape from it, that Plato writes about. Recalling the Allegory of the Cave, The Truman Show presents a world where man lives in a false reality. The Truman Show brings to life the notions of skepticism – the belief that they way you think things do not match up with reality – brought up by Plato and Descartes. However, the 1998 film The Truman Show brings a very plausible reality to these propositions. It is difficult to imagine there being any legitimacy to either of these scenarios that the philosophers set up, as we are so wrapped up in the intricacies of our own lives that it rarely crosses our minds whether there is any authenticity to what we are experiencing. ![]() In his First Meditation, Rene Descartes asks us to abandon all preexisting assumptions of the universe, as there is the possibility that we are being deceived. In his Allegory of the Cave, Plato asks us to consider that the world we are living is the equivalent of a cave in order for us to enter into this “sensible realm” of truth and knowledge we must actively pursue these values. ![]()
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