1. (1) Imagine Socrates appearing in the United States in the year 2015. In your view, would his dialectical method and his search for definition benefit or harm our society? Why? Assuming that he decides not to pay us a visit, who today could take his place? Why?
I believe that Socrates method of dialect and search for definition would improve our society in a very good way. The method of dialect would be very beneficial to our society because a lot of people don’t like to ask questions and by not asking questions, I believe, gives you a disadvantage at truly understanding what something is or how that something works. Searching for definition, to me, is basically trying to truly understand what something is at its very essence. Socrates methods …show more content…
(5) A well-known part of Plato’s Republic is the Allegory of the Cave. Discuss Plato’s story and what it suggest about what doing philosophy involves. In your view, which people today, if any, are living in the Cave? Why?
The Allegory of the Cave is about a man who has lived in a cave and while in that cave he had these experiences that were not actual truths but just things that were made up, shadows of real things. One day the man is made to get up from the sitting position he has been in his whole life and experience the things that were behind all of the experiences he had while in the cave staring at the wall. The story is telling you that philosophy is the act of experiencing real things and finding out what the true meaning is behind the stuff you encounter. The Allegory of the Cave is a way of explaining that you can’t believe everything that you see, because a lot of what you see is just a shadow of what something truly is or what it …show more content…
These proofs that are used by Aquinas are things that have evidence that can be taken from experiences through sense perception and can be applied to the proof of the existence of God. I can see things in the proofs that can be convincing enough to be used for the existence of God. For instance the idea that there can never have been nothing, there was always something before everything, you can keep going back through time and there has always been something and for everything that is in existence something started it, and if there has never been nothing there has to be a first cause that has always been in existence. Also the creation of everything would seem to have been made to a design that seems to have been done with everything having a
I believe that Socrates method of dialect and search for definition would improve our society in a very good way. The method of dialect would be very beneficial to our society because a lot of people don’t like to ask questions and by not asking questions, I believe, gives you a disadvantage at truly understanding what something is or how that something works. Searching for definition, to me, is basically trying to truly understand what something is at its very essence. Socrates methods …show more content…
(5) A well-known part of Plato’s Republic is the Allegory of the Cave. Discuss Plato’s story and what it suggest about what doing philosophy involves. In your view, which people today, if any, are living in the Cave? Why?
The Allegory of the Cave is about a man who has lived in a cave and while in that cave he had these experiences that were not actual truths but just things that were made up, shadows of real things. One day the man is made to get up from the sitting position he has been in his whole life and experience the things that were behind all of the experiences he had while in the cave staring at the wall. The story is telling you that philosophy is the act of experiencing real things and finding out what the true meaning is behind the stuff you encounter. The Allegory of the Cave is a way of explaining that you can’t believe everything that you see, because a lot of what you see is just a shadow of what something truly is or what it …show more content…
These proofs that are used by Aquinas are things that have evidence that can be taken from experiences through sense perception and can be applied to the proof of the existence of God. I can see things in the proofs that can be convincing enough to be used for the existence of God. For instance the idea that there can never have been nothing, there was always something before everything, you can keep going back through time and there has always been something and for everything that is in existence something started it, and if there has never been nothing there has to be a first cause that has always been in existence. Also the creation of everything would seem to have been made to a design that seems to have been done with everything having a