Who was Plato?
Short Writing Assignment
(Yes, I am collecting it.)
If you could choose to live in a fantasy world for the rest of your life, would you choose the illusion or to remain in reality?
Length: 1 paragraph (MEAL)
Please add the vocabulary words and definitions to your notes. You may find other vocabulary words as we read the text.
- Allegory: a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation
- Illusion: implies a false ascribing of reality based on what one sees or imagines
- Theory of Forms: (See below)
In-Class Reading of Plato’s “Book VII” Allegory of the Cave
After Class Discussion