We will spend all week discussing Plato. The first assignment is a short selection (from a fairly long book, Plato’s Republic) that is often referred to as the “Allegory of the Cave.” It is only four pages and as much a story as a philosophical discussion, but you may need to read it more than once because the writing is fairly dense.

As part of preparing for our discussion, you should (as always) think of questions about the text that we might discuss. Your assignment is to send one such question with a page reference and before 8 am on Fri. (to helmang@wabash.edu).

You don’t need to write this out as a full question (though, of course, you may). But you should note the page (or pages) your question concerns and add at least a phrase indicating the topic you are asking about. If your question concerns something that appears in several places, you should pick one and give a reference to it.