Consensus reality

unexpected. The face is beautiful but not pretty. Revolutions temporarily change the way the world is run, but they permanently alter the way it is seen. During the 1920s, the Russian artist Alexander Rodchenko set out to document the new social reality. His aim, he said, was to see 'with morning eyes', as if the revolution had electrified his optical nerves. His use of angle,perspective, and alienation proved successful in un-familiarizing and distorting common subjects to convey a deeper…

second hand truth, which the prisoners perceive is real. In this text the most significant ideas of Plato’s allegory is the idea of self- actualization and real truth. Plato states many examples to show that the people trapped are living in a false reality, and that they are closed minded; everything the trapped people are seeing is shadows of the truth and not the actual object. Plato says the person would state when seeing the truth “ what he saw was an illusion”. The use of the chains…

The René Descartes’ main purpose was finding whether some truths really existed or not. It does not have to be forgot, indeed, that he came from a period of time when sciences did still not have a framed system of values, therefore he wanted to find a truth, between a lot of possible illusions: namely, tidiness among chaos. In this essay, I will explore Descartes’ meeting with the sceptical challenge of what he calls Demon Doubt, by providing evidence of this, as well as an explanation of what…

People encounter reality in different ways, there are people who mistake the epistemic knowledge as their reality while there are others who dive further and investigate into the true reality. The prisoners in ‘Plato’s allegory of the cave’ and the police officers in ‘Changeling’ (Clint Eastwood, 2008) believed in the reality of epistemic knowledge, whereas Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) and the prisoner who left the cave tried to transmission their knowledge and refused to believe in the…

differentiate the truth from reality. The statement given describes that not every truth told is what actually happened, instead it is subjective to a person’s opinion of what is occurring and what they choose to believe. Reality on the other hand is objective, where it is not impartial to one side, separating what is created from imagination and what is real. Before reading these short stories that give insight that presents different viewpoints, I conclude that truth and reality were similar…

What is real? Is there one reality or are there many? What influences the reality? These are the recurring questions that were raised while reading Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s In a Grove. It was confusing to read the seven characters' accounts of the “reality” of the murder case. Specifically, given that each character’s description of the murder differed, from insignificant details to major plot lines, I was conflicted on the truth of the matter. In this way, the subject of metaphysics surfaces as I…

All films images are all “intentional;” the key element is called “intentionality” (it does not intentional in that sense like photography are, but it means “about something”). The mental image you have of an object or a subject in a reality will be different to dreaming about it, because in the dream it will be “about something.” All the objects in the films are intentional in the sense that it is meaningful because it is about something or it is always about something. Take for example…

The combination of these ambivalent qualities that Instagram constructs, creates monstrous elements that impacts the users’ experience and personal life. The contradictory combination of 1) connectedness and the fear of missing out, 2) self-affirmation and feedback-seeking, and 3) passive following/expression and social comparison, create contradictory positive and negative stimulation in the Instagram user. As Biles describes it, “mingling characteristics that human minds want to keep distinct;…

starting to pose major questions that lead a person to seriously ponder his own existence. Hence, the key difference between our times and Platonic and Socratic times is the emergence of technology; it empowers people with the ability to scrutinize reality and constantly question aspects of life. Even if this only leads to an emergence from the cave for a period of time, it changes the way people live and the way they are socially and philosophically…

Why would a person have feelings for a person only to realize the expectations of the other would just be too unrealistic? Would you find that fact out for yourself or from another person? Both Sammy in “A & P” by James Updike and the narrator in “Araby” by James Joyce find this out, only in altering ways. They are both on this lonely quest to find love with interesting ways to go about it, publicly or privately. The characters in each story provide contrasting opinions to the main character,…