Consensus reality

world around us: “What can we know? What is reality? Can we know anything for sure?” Such questions are incredibly complex and not easily answered. Some interesting insight can be found into these thoughts by looking at the work of Plato and Descartes along with the movie The Matrix. In their works entitled The Republic and Meditations on First Philosophy, Plato and Descartes (respectively) present some fascinating thoughts on how we interpret reality and how we know the things we know (if…

to attract the reader. He talks about how Vickers’ death was discovered by a neighbor almost two years after she had actually died. In our society, movie stars are considered to be the most popular and least likely to be considered lonely. When in reality, that has been the case since the arrival of social media such as Facebook. Another point that Marche tries to get across is by using this story is to show how her popularity drastically increased socially after her death. “…Vickers’s lonesome…

Descartes’ “Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy” is ultimately his journey for true knowledge. In his third meditation he tackles the topic of whether or not there is a God. So far he has talked on his methods of how to find true knowledge such as taking everything that he thinks he knows and discarding it as well as only basing what is true on the fact that he can prove it within his own mind. He has concluded this for multiple reasons such as his senses may all be just a…

Superimposing qualities of undifferentiated reality creates an empirical world of names and forms. Advaitins believe that superimposition is based on worldly experiences and the world in general. Some superimpositions are temporary while others are beginingless and endless (those that include superimposing…

are required to provide individuals with all the resources and information they need in order to help their state. Furthermore, social workers will also have the opportunity to talk about oppressions, power, privilege, and the social construct of reality in the micro…

around the idea that our reality is dependent upon our perception of it. This being true, it would signify that we all live in our own reality according to how our mind built it. Of course, with the application and invention of tools…

Reality is a malleable concept that differs from individual to individual. Due to unique characteristics of personality and differences in how people perceive the world, there is no one definition of an absolute reality. The world around a person can be viewed through any lens the individual pleases. In Sack’s “A Mind’s Eye”, the reader is presented with the various realities of people that have gone blind and how each of them differ in how they choose to approach their blindness. Similarly, in…

computer hacking and discovers a man named Morpheus whom comes around with the answers; telling Neo that he lives in world controlled by machines and everything is not what it seems. Morpheus gives him the option of getting out of this alternate reality through a red pill. He gets out of the system in order to receive training by Morpheus and defeat the three suited men that control the whole system. In the movie, “The Matrix” by Joel Silver, there are many motifs parallel to philosophy.…

the novel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, deception is held onto by the boys of Devon School as a way for them to avoid facing the reality and truth of their environments and actions throughout World War II. Due to the tension between the protagonist Gene and his best friend Finny, they hold on to an illusion of peace and happiness in order to hide from reality. The morally testing situations result in a separate and symbolic peace that the boys of Devon use to protect themselves from the…

that learning is painful and requires suffering by telling just how distraught the prisoner became when his illusion was shattered and his understanding was altered. It also offers a scenario in which we are all deceived about the true nature of reality. He does this to show that we are living in a world of an illusion and what we really see are appearances of things that are not what they seem. Plato is also trying…