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The Allegory Of The Cave (2000)

by Plato(Favorite Author)

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review 1: The first reading, in the first seminar course, in your first year at Saint Mary's! Everyone reads this and goes "WTF?!". It's so funny to look back and remember that discussion and how awkward it was. No one understood the story, no one knew anyone in the class, the professor was doing his best to get people to say something/anything, and we were all sitting there silently, thinking "What did I sign up for? I have an entire semester of this?!". Once you're a few classes in (and you realize your grade is almost entirely based on class participation), you get a lot more comfortable in deciphering and discussing the text. Seminar is one of the things that makes Saint Mary's unique. You have to take four semesters of it, ranging from Greek Thought, to Roman/Christian/M... moreedieval Thought, to Renaissance Thought etc. Pretty much old, dead, white guy studies. However I will say, my senior year we challenged the school to get some diversity into the Seminar course options and they delivered. They now offer Multicultural Thought and World Traditions, which is totally awesome. Essentially, Seminar consists of reading the selected text, bringing notes/questions to class, and discussing it. It's about learning to read/understand the classics and how to have healthy discussion and debate within a group. The art of debating your point with someone you don't agree with and not arguing is a skill most people don't have, which makes my degree worth every penny I spent on it. And continue to spend...damn you student loans!
review 2: The first reading, in the first seminar course, in your first year at Saint Mary's! Everyone reads this and goes "WTF?!". It's so funny to look back and remember that discussion and how awkward it was. No one understood the story, no one knew anyone in the class, the professor was doing his best to get people to say something/anything, and we were all sitting there silently, thinking "What did I sign up for? I have an entire semester of this?!". Once you're a few classes in (and you realize your grade is almost entirely based on class participation), you get a lot more comfortable in deciphering and discussing the text. Seminar is one of the things that makes Saint Mary's unique. You have to take four semesters of it, ranging from Greek Thought, to Roman/Christian/Medieval Thought, to Renaissance Thought etc. Pretty much old, dead, white guy studies. However I will say, my senior year we challenged the school to get some diversity into the Seminar course options and they delivered. They now offer Multicultural Thought and World Traditions, which is totally awesome. Essentially, Seminar consists of reading the selected text, bringing notes/questions to class, and discussing it. It's about learning to read/understand the classics and how to have healthy discussion and debate within a group. The art of debating your point with someone you don't agree with and not arguing is a skill most people don't have, which makes my degree worth every penny I spent on it. And continue to spend...damn you student loans! less

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alelou

Of all of our humanistic internal and external beliefs, the most essential, yet challenging matters to prove are the ones we cannot visually see yet are able to perceive and feel. If we cannot actually “see” them, how does one rationally draw a conclusive resolution that they are in fact, truly in existence?What is one’s true reality anyway? Does it differ from our assumptive realism?The world outside of OUR own reality may never exist; this of course, does not make the world outside any less real

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