Assignment task: Please answer the following questions from Chapter 8 (Plato: Knowing the Real and the Good)
1) How does Plato describe Socrates at the beginning of the chapter?
2) In Raphael's painting The School of Athens, in which directions are Plato and Aristotle pointing, respectively? Need Assignment Help?
3) What is the name of Plato's school?
4) How does Plato describe a good state?
5) Which one is changeable and may be true or false - knowledge or opinion?
*Use the story from the section titled "What wisdom is" to answer questions 6 - 13*
6) Where is the cave where people are imprisoned located and how long have they been there?
7) When the people behind the prisoners carry objects, do the prisoners see the objects or the shadows of the objects?
8) True or False: The prisoners realize the shadows they see in front of them are shadows rather than real objects.
9) True or False: When one prisoner leaves the cave, he is happy to leave and excited to be brought to a new world.
10) When he gets outside and his eyesight adjusts to the sun, which things would he see, in order, beginning with shadows and ending with the sun?
11) What would prompt the other prisoners to kill someone who came into their cave?
12) Once the prisoner returns to the cave, he becomes a symbol for Socrates. How so?
13) In the Symposium, Love is defined as the child of which two things?
14) Humans may achieve immortality through having children or what?
15) From Diotima's story of someone initiated into a cult devoted to love, identify the six different kinds of beauty, in order, the lover experiences. (These are also listed in the instructor notes for Plato in d2l.)
16) Regarding the human soul, does Plato believe it is mortal and dies with the body or it is immortal and lives forever?
17) From the section titled "The structure of the soul," identify the three parts of the soul and the function (job) of each part.
18) From the end of the section titled "The structure of the soul," identify the three basic human types, according to Plato.
19) From the story about an ancestor of Gyges, when a shepherd finds a golden ring, what power does he gain?
20) What does the shepherd use the power to do?
21) When is the whole soul excellent, according to the text?
22) Plato identifies three classes of people - productive, protective and which other?
23) How are philosopher kinds described in the text