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Mrs. Vafiades
11th Mar 2016
The Blade Runner
Movie Summary
In the year 2019, Los Angeles has become a dark and distorted city. Rick Deckard an ex cop, is a Blade Runner. Blade runners are people assigned to kill replicants. The replicants are robots that have all physical attributes of human’s beings and can’t be distinguished from humans except for if tests are run. When four replicants committed blood munity on the off World colony, Deckard is called out of retirement to track down the replicants. As he tracks the replicants, eliminating them one by one, Sebastian, a genetic engineer, finds a replicant and takes her home. She brings in another replicant, the leader, seeking for help from him. …show more content…
The main idea to be covered in this portion is, how others perceive the replicants in the blade runner. How the replicants are perceived by themselves. Also what was used to differentiate the replicants from the humans in the movie. In the movie, Deckard conducted a test on suspected replicants where he uses to response of the retina of replicants to certain questions to determine if they were real or if they were replicants. Some movie quotes that confirm this question are: “More human than human is our motto” by the Tyrell Cooperation, “Replicants are like other machine” by Deckard, “We are not computers Sebastian we’re physical” by Batty and “Nothing the God of biomechanics wouldn’t let you into heaven for” by Batty. A philosopher who would very much agree with one of the quotes in this text (“Replicants are like any other machine”) would be Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes philosophy on human nature was that Human beings are complex machines, whose behaviors, characteristics and functions can all be explained in mechanical terms. For example, a thing like sensation would involve a series of mechanical processes in the human body. He didn’t believe that humans had a soul or mind that’s distinct from its body. Hobbes would probably conclude that this replicants are humans too because of the mechanical similarities we both have in reasoning and physical function. A philosopher who would disagree …show more content…
This is one of the most tasking questions in philosophy with so many different philosophers have coming out with their different hypothesis on whether human actions are pre-determined or if our actions are solely based on free-will, a compatibilist would probably say that we have both, myself I think it’s a mixture of the two. This question is from the metaphysical aspect of philosophy. The main idea to be covered in this part is whether the replicants actions are fated or if they had freewill. Some movie quotes are “Stop right where you are, you know the score pal you’re little people”, “No choices huh? ”, “No choices pal” a conversation between Bryant and Deckard, ”I think Sebastian therefore I am” by Pris, “You’d better get up or I’m going to have to kill you” by Batty. According to David Hume, a soft determinist which means he believes that for every event, including human interactions, there exist conditions that could cause no other event (Vafiades 2016). He said, “A person’s action is free if, and only if, had the person wanted to do otherwise than the act, the person would have had the power to do otherwise than the act. (Vafiades 2016). Soft Determinism is the theory that human behavior and actions are wholly determined by causal events, but human free will does exist when defined as the capacity to act according to one's nature. David Hume would say the actions of the Replicants would have been different
Mrs. Vafiades
11th Mar 2016
The Blade Runner
Movie Summary
In the year 2019, Los Angeles has become a dark and distorted city. Rick Deckard an ex cop, is a Blade Runner. Blade runners are people assigned to kill replicants. The replicants are robots that have all physical attributes of human’s beings and can’t be distinguished from humans except for if tests are run. When four replicants committed blood munity on the off World colony, Deckard is called out of retirement to track down the replicants. As he tracks the replicants, eliminating them one by one, Sebastian, a genetic engineer, finds a replicant and takes her home. She brings in another replicant, the leader, seeking for help from him. …show more content…
The main idea to be covered in this portion is, how others perceive the replicants in the blade runner. How the replicants are perceived by themselves. Also what was used to differentiate the replicants from the humans in the movie. In the movie, Deckard conducted a test on suspected replicants where he uses to response of the retina of replicants to certain questions to determine if they were real or if they were replicants. Some movie quotes that confirm this question are: “More human than human is our motto” by the Tyrell Cooperation, “Replicants are like other machine” by Deckard, “We are not computers Sebastian we’re physical” by Batty and “Nothing the God of biomechanics wouldn’t let you into heaven for” by Batty. A philosopher who would very much agree with one of the quotes in this text (“Replicants are like any other machine”) would be Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes philosophy on human nature was that Human beings are complex machines, whose behaviors, characteristics and functions can all be explained in mechanical terms. For example, a thing like sensation would involve a series of mechanical processes in the human body. He didn’t believe that humans had a soul or mind that’s distinct from its body. Hobbes would probably conclude that this replicants are humans too because of the mechanical similarities we both have in reasoning and physical function. A philosopher who would disagree …show more content…
This is one of the most tasking questions in philosophy with so many different philosophers have coming out with their different hypothesis on whether human actions are pre-determined or if our actions are solely based on free-will, a compatibilist would probably say that we have both, myself I think it’s a mixture of the two. This question is from the metaphysical aspect of philosophy. The main idea to be covered in this part is whether the replicants actions are fated or if they had freewill. Some movie quotes are “Stop right where you are, you know the score pal you’re little people”, “No choices huh? ”, “No choices pal” a conversation between Bryant and Deckard, ”I think Sebastian therefore I am” by Pris, “You’d better get up or I’m going to have to kill you” by Batty. According to David Hume, a soft determinist which means he believes that for every event, including human interactions, there exist conditions that could cause no other event (Vafiades 2016). He said, “A person’s action is free if, and only if, had the person wanted to do otherwise than the act, the person would have had the power to do otherwise than the act. (Vafiades 2016). Soft Determinism is the theory that human behavior and actions are wholly determined by causal events, but human free will does exist when defined as the capacity to act according to one's nature. David Hume would say the actions of the Replicants would have been different