1.What is Plato's legacy?

Plato’s legacy is called Platonism, which has four characteristics: 1- that the purpose
of philosophy is to conclude at a single understanding of all that is known, 2- that
generalizations have explanatory value, 3- that reality is not divided up into sections but
coherent as a singularity, 4- that thought and fact each provide value.
2. What do you think is the most important idea given to us by Socrates?
I think the most important idea Socrate gave us is the idea that knowledge equals
virtue, which equals happiness, and that by committing an injustice one damages one’s own
soul, which is worse than any damage that can be done to a person by another.
3. Why was Socrates placed on trial?
Socrates was placed on trial because Meletus accused him of “impiety” and
“corrupting the young” because Socrates looked for “the basis of morality in reasoning and
not in the simple repetition of the examples set out in the tales of the gods”.
4. What is wonder?
Wonder is a natural curiosity about the world that we have as children that inspires
us to learn and grow that we tend to lose as we grown older.
5. What is cosmology?
Cosmology is the science of the origin of the universe, or an “explanation for the
order of the universe”.
6. What were the pre-socratics looking for?
The pre-socratics were looking for a cosmology that did not rely on the gods, a
cosmology that was not based on belief but on reason.
7.  What are the four noble truths of Buddhism?
The truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of
suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering.
8.  What are the similarities between Buddha and Plato?
Both Buddha and Plato place value in ethics. Both Buddha and Plato value skepticism
and questioning things rather than pretending we know things we don’t actually know. Both
Buddha and Plato see knowledge as the thing that leads us to wholeness, while ignorance
causes rifts.
9. Why are you already a philosopher?
Because I think and ask questions about the world.
10.  What are metaphysical question that you are concerned with?  
How do I know that what I perceive is actually reality? In the large sense and in the
small sense, like sure what if the world is like The Matrix, but on a smaller scale, how can I
be sure that things I think I know, like the way something looks to me or the way something
feels to me or the way something sounds to me or the way I think someone is behaving
toward me is in fact reality?
Also, do all humans perceive the world in the same way? What about color? Do we all see
color the same way?