Project X for Fortified

1. According to Plato, what would the people in the cave do to the person who had been outside the cave after this person returned to the cave?

A. Welcome him B. Listen to the teachings of her new knowledge C. Try to kill him D. Make him king of the realm of the cave

2. According to Plato, the sun outside the cave is __________.

a. Happiness

b. the form of the good

C. the truth for those in the cave

D. heaven

3. What are the humans looking at in their initial position?

a. The sun

b. Artifacts

c. Shadows

d. Eachother

4. According to Plato, how do humans find themselves initially in the cave?

a. Walking around searching for the truth

b. Shackled to their seats

c. With the goal of moving out of the cave

d. Staring at a fire

5. After one is dragged out of the cave, the last thing that one sees is __________.

a. The sun

b. Shadows

c. Reflections in pools

d. Objects in the realm of the sun

6. Describe the point of view that you have as you approach your major field of study. In addition, identify the goals and ends that you have in view as you undergo your education.

1. Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

7. Describe the movement of the person in Plato’s allegory of the cave. Be very specific about the various stages in this movement, and then please explain how this allegory relates to our own lives. What is Plato’s idea about the best type of life?

Your response should be at least 500 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Match the explanation with the appropriate Key Term.

1. Purpose of reasoning

2. Information

3. Point of view of reasoning

4. Assumptions of reasoning

5. Concepts in reasoning

6. Inert information

7. Activated ignorance

8. Activated knowledge

9. Inference

10. Intellectual relativity

A.	General categories or ideas that humans use to interpret and classify the information that comes into their thinking.
B.	Taking into the mind information that is false and using it as if it were true.
C.	The frame of reference, perspective, or worldview that underlies one’s reasoning.
D.	Cognitive material that humans take into their minds but do not understand.
E.	Data, facts, and observations that are used by human reason to understand its reality.
F.	Information that is taken into the mind that is true, understood, and that leads to further illumination.
G.	Those things that humans take for granted based on their past experiential knowledge.
H.	A step of the mind whereby someone concludes that something is true based on something else being true or seeming to be true.
I.	The idea that nothing can be proven to be true.
J.	The goal of objective of thinking.