The "attitude" towards philosophy explained by Jim Carrey

**"Religion, Science, Culture, The Media - these are all different ways you can look at reality. People are coming at life from every single angle, but they can't actually look at life. So they look at images of reality - They look at all these images and concepts and all of that is just an idea which is all exactly the same as looking at a painting of somebody else's idea of life. That's not life - that's just an idea of life."**<br><br>This echoes the philosophical debate between Plato and柏(Baruch Spinoza?) or someone I forget. On the one hand Plato said all we can know is shadows of reality. Spinoza said we can know reality for what it is. The question which one is correct has puzzled philosophers for millions of years. <br><br>**References:**<br><br>* Plato, The Republic [1]<br>* Jim Carrey, What It All Means [1]<br>* Baruch Spinoza, Ethics [1]<br>* References<br>* [1] Plato. (c. 380 BC). The Republic.<br>* [2] Jim Carrey. (2022). *What It All Means*.<br>* [3] Spinoza, B. (1677). *Ethics*.<br><br>**PS:** Adding to my own ideas, this notion about looking at reality through various viewpoints, is also related to Kantian philosophy: Kant said that we can't actually look at reality for what it is. But we can figure out how exactly we are not able to look at reality. That is, we cannot know reality in itself. We can only know how we can't know reality and what that says about reality in general.