Sunmi Famule
Hour 3
ESSAY TEST
Comparing an Apple tree to an Orange tree is a task that deems the rolling of one's eyes. This is similar to comparing a book about the N-word (nigger The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy) to a book written by the out of touch Plato (Dialogues of Plato). However different, readers can scrounge up a similarity between the two and get a slight sense of how plato would have viewed Kennedy’s book. Plato would have viewed Kennedy’s book as a way of overcoming ignorance which perfectly correlates with his Den allegory.
“The only good is knowledge and the only bad is ignorance.” This quote directly states what is good (knowledge) and what is bad (ignorance). Readers can infer that knowledge is good because when their is the presence of knowledge you are able to decide what to believe in. Ignorance is not good because when you are ignorant you do not have a choice to believe anything other than what you know and believe. …show more content…
Both their feet and hands are shackled and their only source of light is the sun (but they don’t know that) and it reflects the shadows of people who are carrying different objects, Because this is all they see, they start to perceive the shadows as the people because they were unaware of the actual people who casted those shadows. When one of them becomes free and goes into the light, he is painfully greeted with the realization that the shadows are not people, rather people casted those shadows. When he goes back to the cave and tells the others what he now knows, they think him to be an idiot and they do not believe him. He has gained knowledge but the man has also lost his “friends.” He now has a choice continue to believe in shadows or
Hour 3
ESSAY TEST
Comparing an Apple tree to an Orange tree is a task that deems the rolling of one's eyes. This is similar to comparing a book about the N-word (nigger The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy) to a book written by the out of touch Plato (Dialogues of Plato). However different, readers can scrounge up a similarity between the two and get a slight sense of how plato would have viewed Kennedy’s book. Plato would have viewed Kennedy’s book as a way of overcoming ignorance which perfectly correlates with his Den allegory.
“The only good is knowledge and the only bad is ignorance.” This quote directly states what is good (knowledge) and what is bad (ignorance). Readers can infer that knowledge is good because when their is the presence of knowledge you are able to decide what to believe in. Ignorance is not good because when you are ignorant you do not have a choice to believe anything other than what you know and believe. …show more content…
Both their feet and hands are shackled and their only source of light is the sun (but they don’t know that) and it reflects the shadows of people who are carrying different objects, Because this is all they see, they start to perceive the shadows as the people because they were unaware of the actual people who casted those shadows. When one of them becomes free and goes into the light, he is painfully greeted with the realization that the shadows are not people, rather people casted those shadows. When he goes back to the cave and tells the others what he now knows, they think him to be an idiot and they do not believe him. He has gained knowledge but the man has also lost his “friends.” He now has a choice continue to believe in shadows or