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A Beauitful Mind

The document contains questions about the film "A Beautiful Mind" focusing on John Nash's understanding of knowledge and how it changes over the course of the movie. It begins with examples of rationalism, empiricism, and transcendental idealism. Nash initially believes what he perceives to be true, but later learns his schizophrenia made his perceptions unreliable. He comes to trust his wife and doctors over his imaginary friend Charles, showing how evidence and conflicting sources shape beliefs. Nash's struggle highlights the fallibility of perception and the limitations of human understanding.

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A Beauitful Mind

The document contains questions about the film "A Beautiful Mind" focusing on John Nash's understanding of knowledge and how it changes over the course of the movie. It begins with examples of rationalism, empiricism, and transcendental idealism. Nash initially believes what he perceives to be true, but later learns his schizophrenia made his perceptions unreliable. He comes to trust his wife and doctors over his imaginary friend Charles, showing how evidence and conflicting sources shape beliefs. Nash's struggle highlights the fallibility of perception and the limitations of human understanding.

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“A Beautiful Mind”

Film Questions

1. Complete the chart below:


Examples of Rationalism Examples of Empiricism Examples of Transcendental
Idealism
Nash thinking that it makes Nash thinking Charles is real by When nash decides he wants to
sense that he is working for the things like seeing him and be a teacher and uses his
government feeling him when he hugs him knowledge to teach them and
his experience

2. What is the nature of knowledge according to John Nash, the protagonist of the film? How does his
understanding of knowledge change over the course of the movie?
His understanding of knowledge changes when he realizes he has schizophrenia.

3. How does John Nash come to believe in the existence of his imaginary friend, Charles? What does
this say about the nature of belief and justification?
He believes it when his wife and doctors convince him that he isn’t real, and he realizes that Charles
and his wife never coexist.

4. What is the role of evidence in John Nash's pursuit of knowledge? How does he weigh conflicting
evidence and choose which sources to trust?
He chooses which sources to trust at the beginning based on whatever he sees and believes, and later in
the movie chooses to trust his wife and doctor when things aren’t real. The evidence he has of what he
sees is what he believes as knowledge

5. How does Nash's struggle with schizophrenia raise questions about the reliability of perception and
knowledge?
It makes his perception and knowledge of a lot of things unreliable since it isn’t true or real, just to him.

6. How does Nash's story tell us about the limitations of human understanding and knowledge?
It tells us how everyones minds work extremely differently and everyone processes and obtains
knowledge differently.

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