Use the ideas of Robert Nozik, Plato, The Skeptics, Descartes, Karl Pearson, and Socrates to answer the following questions:
Can a life be meaningful if it is fake or counterfeit? Can "you" be real, while the life you are living is not?
In The Truman Show, Christof believes that humans would rather live in a safe cell than seek freedom in an unknown world. Do you agree or disagree? Why? Which option would you prefer?
In what ways is Christof like God? In what ways is he different?
What does American Beauty tell us about our responsibility for our own happiness? Is our happiness completely within our control?
Describe the types of transcendence that the characters, Lester and his wife Carolyn, in American Beauty are trying to attain.
Relate Lester and his wife to the figures in Plato's Allegory Of The Cave. Give an example of a point in American Beauty when a character acted like one of the permanently chained prisoners in the cave. Have you yourself ever acted like those prisoners?
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