Plato's Allegory of the Cave is Book VII in his much larger work, The Republic. The Allegory of the Cave is a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon, the former telling us what he believes about reality and how we have a false interpretation of reality. It is an extended metaphor full of symbolis...
-(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518) No scheme of human life was so important to Plato as education. ... He expresses in Republic that the whole function of education is not to put knowledge into the soul, & to do so by directing it to the right objects. ... However education in the Republic is exclusively meant for those who are to become the rulers of the ideal state. ...
The Matrix of Man, Technology, and Reality And how the program for The Matrix Was written hundreds of years ago Introduction: What is the Matrix? Which pill will you take; will it be the red one or the blue? Will you choose the blissfulness of ignorance, or will you see how far down the rabbit hole goes? This is a question you need to answer, when you decide to dive into the philosophy of the Matrix, one of the biggest blockbuster film trilogies, joining notable other such film trilogies as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Terminator, and Star Trek. The Matrix although it has the ability...
