The Matrix

Based on Plato’s allegory. In the film, the humans trapped in the Matrix are like the people in the cave. They see only what the machines want them to see, but they believe they see reality as it really is. 

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

The "Allegory of the Cave" is a classic commentary on the human condition. It is a story showing how true reality is not always what it seems to be on the surface. It is a story of  open-mindedness and the power of possibility.

What is love?

People say love makes the world go around. Almost every song on the radio is about love, and most of the movies we enjoy involve a love story. But, how many people stop to ask themselves what exactly love is? Philosophers are the ones who ask questions about things everyone else takes for granted. Love  is something human beings have been taking for granted since the beginning of  recorded history. Philosophers have been trying to figure out what it is for at least as long.


Plato explores the nature of love in his dialogue, The Symposium. It portrays a group of people at a party, each one presenting a theory on what love is. One of the men, a playwright named Aristophanes, argues that true love means you have found your “other half.”

Soulmates and Aristophanes

In his dialogue The Symposium, Plato has Aristophanes present a story about soul mates. Aristophanes states that humans originally had four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces, but Zeus feared their power and split them all in half, condemning them to spend their lives searching for the other half to complete them.