Cube is a science fiction film that depicts the imprisonment of seven people, all of whom are complete strangers, in a labyrinth filled with different traps that are designed to kill the members of the newly formed group. In order to survive, the strangers must move room to room, all while avoiding traps, to try and find the exit of the labyrinth they have been imprisoned in. The situation that the seven strangers find themselves in proves to be an interesting case study for philosophers. Cube generates a lively discussion between those who study Thomas Hobbes’s views on what humanity would look like without any form of working government or central authority (a Leviathan). Hobbes uses the term state of nature to describe a state that has no
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The group of seven strangers is in a state of nature because there is no Leviathan figure or government to make and enforce the rules. An equality of strength is not present in this situation because not every member of the group is able to kill one another. Kazan would not be able to attack and kill any other member of the group because of his limited mental and physical abilities. An equality of prudence is also not present because not every member can think of rational ways to survive. Without help from others, Kazan would not be able to have survived the various traps throughout the labyrinth of rooms. For example, in one of the rooms Kazan had to be prompted to be quiet in order for the trap not to kill the members of the group. Without the other members Kazan likely would have made noise earlier than he did in the movie and been killed. Without equality of strength and equality of prudence being present, the equality of hope is not evident. The lack of equality of hope is evident by watching Worth throughout the movie. Worth withholds the fact that he helped build the Cube because he does not believe that it is escapable and that his limited knowledge of the wall won’t help the group. He can even be seen as not having an equality of hope when he is given the chance to escape the Cube but says that he couldn’t face a world that had put them in the Cube. This shows that even when given the chance to escape,
The group of seven strangers is in a state of nature because there is no Leviathan figure or government to make and enforce the rules. An equality of strength is not present in this situation because not every member of the group is able to kill one another. Kazan would not be able to attack and kill any other member of the group because of his limited mental and physical abilities. An equality of prudence is also not present because not every member can think of rational ways to survive. Without help from others, Kazan would not be able to have survived the various traps throughout the labyrinth of rooms. For example, in one of the rooms Kazan had to be prompted to be quiet in order for the trap not to kill the members of the group. Without the other members Kazan likely would have made noise earlier than he did in the movie and been killed. Without equality of strength and equality of prudence being present, the equality of hope is not evident. The lack of equality of hope is evident by watching Worth throughout the movie. Worth withholds the fact that he helped build the Cube because he does not believe that it is escapable and that his limited knowledge of the wall won’t help the group. He can even be seen as not having an equality of hope when he is given the chance to escape the Cube but says that he couldn’t face a world that had put them in the Cube. This shows that even when given the chance to escape,