Does the story have prison guards

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PART A- REACTION QUESTIONS

Socrates argues 2400 years ago that our overindulgence in physical pleasures, distractions from visual culture and our social and cultural influences result in a state of ignorance that he compares to living in a prison.

1. Applying Socrates's analysis to 21st century America, why would you argue that most people are enslaved?

2. Why would you argue that most people today are not intellectually enslaved, given greater access to information?

Part B-Plato's Cave Allegory

Use Plato's Cave Allegory Handout to answer the following.

1. Does the story have prison guards? If not, what is needed to be liberated from the chains in the quote from Republic 519?

2. Explain what the puppeteers are doing in the puppet show they create. Explain the significance of Thrasymachus' comparison between shepherds and rulers. How are political rulers like puppeteers (low wall puppeteers)?

3. How would you defend Theaetetus' claim about the role of perception? How does the quote from Theaetetus help to justify the prisoners believes about what they see? Despite Theaetetus' claim, that perception is knowledge, why should the prisoners not believe what they are seeing (symbolism in fire and shadow)?

4. According to Socrates, the sun in the story represents ethical and moral goodness. Why is the sun a good metaphor for morality? What is the significance of the fact that you cannot look directly at the sun as a metaphor for morality?

5. Socrates says that being inside the cave is seeing and being outside the cave is thinking. Why are there limitless instances of physical tables or any other object inside the cave, but only one idea of a table outside the cave? What are the minimal conditions of a table?

6. To satisfy the lecture portion of this course, please view the Spotlight Lecture posted in the Week 6 folder. Demonstrate by answering the following: Explain Socrates' theory about addiction.

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