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Assignment: E Book (Job, Genesis, Plato)
I. Use these links obove to answers the Qustions below
II. For each of the following questions, provide a 75 to 100 word answer. You answer should be (i) factually accurate with respect to the readings, (ii) demonstrative of your having engaged with the readings, (iii) connected to key concepts . Write your answers and submit as a PDF.
A. One way to think about Job is as an exploration of the question, why do bad things happen to good people? First, characterize Job's friends' attempts at answering this question.
B. Second, then explain why the friends are wrong, and what the text's answer to this question seems to beFor each of the following questions, provide a 75 - 100 word answer. You answer should be (i) factually accurate with respect to the readings, (ii) demonstrative of your having engaged with the readings, (iii) connected to key concepts as explained in lecture. Write your answers and submit as a PDF.
a. One way to think about Job is as an exploration of the question, why do bad things happen to good people? First, characterize Job's friends' attempts at answering this question.
b. Second, then explain why the friends are wrong, and what the text's answer to this question seems to be.
c. What is the relationship between knowledge and goodness outlined in The Republic? Use the Cave allegory or the Philosopher King idea to explain.
d. How does this relationship between goodness and knowledge differ from what's seemingly endorsed in Genesis and Job?
e. Name one way that you notice the Buddhist view of evil differs from our Western examples so far. Be specific in naming a Buddhist concept and comparing it to a specific feature of one of the Western readings (Job, Genesis, Plato)..
f. What is the relationship between knowledge and goodness outlined in The Republic? Use the Cave allegory or the Philosopher King idea to explain.
g. How does this relationship between goodness and knowledge differ from what's seemingly endorsed in Genesis and Job?
h. Name one way that you notice the Buddhist view of evil differs from our Western examples so far. Be specific in naming a Buddhist concept and comparing it to a specific feature of one of the Western readings (Job, Genesis, Plato).