Philosophy: Week 10 (Quiz 1)

When an enlightened one returns to the cave, Plato says such a person will be

"blind and bewildered about cave life" and "yearning to return to the upper world"

In the Republic, Plato argues that all the prisoners in the cave will eventually see daylight.

False

Plato argues that the prisoners in the cave can never be enlightened.

False

Plato maintains that personal freedom is more important than wisdom.

False

Plato thinks that only the rich and powerful can be enlightened.

False

The freed prisoner does not feel obligated to enlighten the others living in ignorance.

False

In Plato's Republic, what does the sun outside the cave represent?

The good

Plato distinguishes between appearance and reality.

True

Plato thinks that few people have insight into what's real.

True

Plato thinks that the prisoners are deluded.

True

The Allegory of the Cave reminds us that people will often prefer comfortable commonplace assumptions to the deeper, sometimes unsettling understanding derived from philosophy.

True

The Allegory of the Cave suggests that there is a difference between knowledge and mere belief.

True

How does Plato characterize the "good"? It

all of these

Who, in Plato's Allegory of the Cave, are the people sitting in the cave?

all of us.

In the analogy of the Sun, the good is to the ______ world what the sun is to the_______ world:

intellectual/visible.

Socrates claims that the people chained in the cave are

like ourselves.

The Allegory of the Cave suggests that the truth is

not always obvious.

What do the shadows on the cave wall represent?

ordinary people's ignorance-infused views of the world

In Plato's Republic, after viewing the Sun, the philosopher returns to the cave

reluctantly

The people chained in the cave view the returning philosopher

resentfully

What does the sun outside the cave represent?

the idea of good

In his Allegory of the Cave, Plato advances the notion that ___________.

there are two realms: one of change and becoming, the other of being and eternal truth

What do the objects observed outside the cave represent?

things as they really are, grasped in the light of reason

In the Allegory of the Cave, the reaction of the prisoners to the enlightened one is

to revile him as ridiculous.

Plato's allegory reminds us that widely accepted opinions can be

wrong