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Philosophy Essay (3 pages - 1200 words)
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Paper 1: (choose one)
1. Explore Ignorance versus Knowledge and Freedom versus Happiness in Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
2. Show how WEB Dubois (chapter 13 of The Souls of Black Folk - accessible by blackboard) uses the Allegory to explore ignorance as it is displayed in the both the oppressor and oppressed. Examine the relationship between knowledge, freedom and happiness according to Dubois.
3. Explain the Buddha's "Three Marks of Existence": No Self, Impermanence and Suffering. Examine the relationship between knowledge, freedom and happiness according to the Buddha. If you so wish, you can compare and contrast the Buddha's view of the self with Plato's and also their views on knowledge, freedom and happiness.
4. Compare and contrast Plato's "Theory of Forms" and Aristotle's "Four Causes of Being." How are they similar and how do they differ?