1. How does Plato distinguish and justify his distinction between genuine knowledge and right opinion? In your answer discuss the three major approaches which Plato takes to this question:
a. psychological: based on the structure of the rational soul
b. epistemological: based on the establishment of standards of truth and knowledge
c. metaphysical: based on a theory of reality
To answer question (1) you should rely on your lecture notes, the Plato lecture (pdf), Plato's allegory of the Cave, and Plato's Divided Line. All of the latter material is on iLearn.
2. (2a) In your own opinion, how do you understand the relationship between psychology, epistemology and metaphysics?
(2b) Can the question "what can we know?" be answered apart from considering the questions "what is the structure of the mind?" and "what is most real in the universe"?