textual evidence

When answering Support all interpretative arguments with textual evidence and references to specific texts and page numbers. Right after the quote in text CITATION. Make sure to give reasoned interpretations of the views you are examining and to provide arguments for the views you are putting forward. Each question should be at least 2 to 3 pages long as an essay format double space. Each page should title with the question number. This questions are based on the following books/ Philosophers Plato, Ibn Tufayl, and Sor Juana and W.E.B.  it will be checked!!!!!

Questions:

1. Over the course of the semester, the concepts of ‘image’ and ‘imagination’ have, in one form or another, been a subject of investigation for nearly all of the authors whose works we have read. Focusing your remarks on the ideas of Ibn Tufayl, Sor Juana, and W.E.B. Du Bois, discuss the meaning of the concept of ‘imagination.’ Can it be defined, and if so, how? What is its relationship to philosophical reason for each of them? To truth? To ignorance? Finally, what do you think is the role of the imagination in the life of the mind? What are its benefits and its pitfalls? In text citation

2. What does it mean to be a philosopher – a lover of wisdom? Plato, Ibn Tufayl, and Sor Juana all propose very different answers to this question. How does each of them think through the meaning and importance of philosophy? Why should anyone be involved in such a pursuit? Will it benefit others? Should everyone be a philosopher, or only some people (and if so, whom)? Considering their respective ideas on the subject, do you find any of their arguments more convincing than the others? Why/why not?

3. One of the things that gets in the way of people becoming educated is the belief – or prejudice – that one knows what one does not. Nearly every author whose work we’ve read this semester has something to say about the relationship between prejudice and ignorance and about how to overcome both. How will you overcome your prejudices? How can you tell the difference between prejudice and truth? How will you move from ignorance to knowledge? In thinking about your answer to these questions consider the ideas of the Marquis De Sade, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Sor Juana on prejudice and its relationship to learning. What doubts might each express about your intentions, expectations, and ambitions? What challenges do their ideas pose for you, and how will you overcome them?

4. One of the central question of philosophy has to do with the nature of reality: what is the fundamental stuff that everything is made of, and can we give a rational account of it? Throughout the semester we have seen this question answered in two opposed ways. One perspective has it that reality is fundamentally an idea (or caused by ideas); another proposes the notion that the fundamental stuff of reality is matter and that ideas are a byproduct of this material world. Where do the Marquis De Sade, Plato, and W.E.B. Du Bois fall in this debate? How does each argue for his perspective? How would each defend his view against those of the others? And finally, how do the ones who fall on the same side of the materialism/idealism divide differ from each other?

1. Ibn Tufayl, Sor Juana, and W.E.B. Du Bois

2. Plato, Ibn Tufayl, and Sor Juana

3. the Marquis De Sade, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Sor Juana

4. Marquis De Sade, Plato, and W.E.B. Du Bois

Ibn Tufayl: 2

Sor Juana: 3

Du Bois: 3

Plato: 2

Marquis: 2