Remember who you are and whose you are. – Sister Thea Bowman
Grandfather would prowl through the living room as though seeking a place of rest and not finding it, would stare fixedly without speaking, and would then descend the basement steps to the rocking chair which sat beside the furnace. — Margaret Laurence, “Mask of the Bear”(139)
… not selfishly–or not always selfishly, we are in search [...]
We’ve been asking questions about the world.
Some have read Plato’s Cave Allegory.
Our discussions have tried to be more philosophical. Kierkegaard’s leap into faith and nihilism a bit.
We seem to return always to our four postulates:
Something can come from nothing,
God exists,
Humans have immortal soul,
Humans have free will.
We have all watched The Truman Show.
We created and responded [...]
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
(427 BC-347 BC)
We must constantly make decisions in daily life. Some decisions are simple choices (e.g., Coke or Pepsi) while others affect people’s entire lives. Furthermore, every decision has consequences and [...]
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
- Plato
Write a story in which a protagonist undergoes a transformation in the search for self. Have your character encounter basic questions about his/her identity.
Consider using the following images:
Sophie was introduced to Aristotle. Ideas no longer belong to a realm of their own, but somehow the idea is within the thing. Aristotle could explain this by talking of sculptures and stone.
Review what was said earlier about Plato and art. Discuss Aristotle’s take on the place of ideas and art.
Search for a thumbnail [...]
Have a look at this powerpoint file here. Wikipedia additional terms needed to answer the following:
Given that what we experience of reality is merely a simulation in our minds, then all art is a simulation of a simulation.
Is art useless?
In our engineered age, an age of HDTV, megapixels images, colour laser printers, virtual reality, 3D [...]
from Republic, BOOK VII
And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and [...]
