coolsoftball2002
coolsoftball2002
23.09.2020 • 
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ASAP! HELP WITH QUESTIONS PLEASE! 35 POINTS!! 1. What is the purpose of the comparison Socrates makes in the Allegory of the Cave? What larger idea or concept is the elder philosopher explaining? 2. How does Socrates lay out his hypothetical situation? Explain in your own words the scene he depicts to Glaucon. 3. What do the prisoners believe to be reality? 4. Why does Socrates argue that a prisoner drug to the outside world would find only pain in gazing at the world in the light of the sun? 5. What does Socrates suggest would be the reaction of a liberated prisoner who returns to the cave and the other prisoners? How would he regard the prisoners’ version of reality? 6. What is the purpose of the allegory of the cave? What does the story reveal about human nature?

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