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... In The Matrix, Neo and his group of rebels are fighting against the imprisonment of a deterministic, machine-run world, while most of the human race is being controlled. These beliefs both have valid arguments, and I will share what my belief is on existentialism and determinism, and how The Matrix incorporates these ideas into the movie. ... Being out of control usually describes a bad situation, and that pretty much sums up what I believe determinism to be. Determinism is defined as a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes, which is often understood as denying the possibility of free will. ... Determinism seems to be a crutch that people use as a “cop out”, which allows people to blow off the reality of a situation. ... I don’t believe in determinism because, as Neo says in The Matrix, I don’t like feeling that I am not in control of what I do. ...
Existentialism is a philosophical movement that emphasizes freedom and choice. ... Unlike determinism, we are free to do whatever we want. ...
For the human race, being controlled by the machines in the matrix program was very deterministic. ...
The agent programs patrol the matrix, looking to destroy any and all of the enlightened people. ... Cypher delivers Morpheus to the agents, and in return, is put back into the matrix program with no memory of the free world. ... The chapter in our textbook on existentialism states that anguish accompanies freedom, but, and this is where Cypher and the book disagree, to deny freedom to live without anguish is unthinkable. ...
The Matrix is not free of determinism, though. ... He believes in himself, and being the hero that he is, he chooses to go back into the matrix to save Morpheus.
Approximate Word count = 1374
Approximate Pages = 5.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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