read passage and answer questions

Questions on Plato’s Republic pp. 133-143 in Abel 4th ed.,

pp. # 118-127- 3rd ed., pp. 104-113 in 2nd ed.

1. Socrates differentiates between those who in his opinion are “dreaming” and those who are “awake”. Characterize the difference in your own words. How does this differentiation relate to Socrates’ additional differentiation between “opinion” and “knowledge”?

2. What does Socrates mean when he speaks of the “in-between object” and the “in-between power”?

Or, in the Project Gutenberg translation: What does Socrates mean when he speaks of "the intermediate flux which is caught and detained by the intermediate faculty".

3. Which things, according to Socrates, are the people who have knowledge passionately devoted to? What does Socrates mean?

4. What does Socrates mean when he speaks about “the visible” as opposed to “the intelligible”?

5. What in Socrates’ opinion are the four conditions in the soul which correspond to his analogy of the divided line?

6. Socrates states: “consider that each shares in clarity to the degree that the subsection it deals with shares in truth”. What does he mean?

7. In the analogy of the cave, Socrates speaks of the kinds of things we might view if released from our bonds. What are these? How do they relate to the analogy of the divided line?

8. What, ultimately, does Socrates expect will be the normal attitude of one who has emerged from the cave?

9. What, according to Socrates, is most likely to occur to a person who tries to release another from being bound in the cave?

10. At the end of the analogy of the cave Socrates speaks of the difference between coming into being and that which is. Give an example of each, and explain why your example demonstrates what Socrates has said.