Consider the following questions:
What pre-Socratic infuences can you identify in Plato? (Be specific: e.g., "Plato, like Parmenides, believes that . . .") Plato wanted to be a philosopher like .
What traditional metaphysical issues seem important today?
Which modern theories about the nature of reality are materialist? Which are immaterialist?
How is Plato responding to the pre-Socratics with his theory of Forms? What is Aristo-tle's response to this theory?