In the “Matrix and Philosophy” Theodore Schick Jr. discusses the conflict between omniscience and free will. Omniscience means all knowing and free will is the choice that we make. I believe that the human being has free will, a choice to make and I believe in fate. We have our own choice, nobody is telling us what to do, how to do it, or which path to choose. I do think we make our own decisions but even those choices are fate. Everybody has a path in their life, and that path is determined by God. We always make choices, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but with making these choices we walk the path and our fate is to do that. God has a plan for every one of us, but we are the one that has the choice how it will occur. From the experience we had and knowledge each individual makes different choices and has a different effect from those choices.
Philosopher Immanuel Kant states: “Life is not the kind of experience you’ve had, but the kind of choices you’ve made. If you’ve always tried to do the right thing, then you are a good person even if things did not turn out the way you planned.”(Irwin pg.89). I agree we have to make good choices and walk on the right path. Philosopher Richard Taylor states:”Fatalism is the belief that whatever happens is unavoidable.” (Irwin pg. 91). The events will happen, and we cannot escape our fate, our destiny.
The Oracle doesn’t actually tell the future, she only tells Neo what he wants to hear. He doesn’t think he is the one, so she tells him that. She encourages him to believe and to make a choice, and to walk the path. But after that he realizes he is the one and has the free will to choose the red pill. Neo chooses to become the One, which was his fate and Morpheus, and the other humans believed in him.
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