Learning Activities

1. According to Socrates, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” Explain.

- Through this statement, Socrates means that an unexamined human life is deprived of the
meaning and purpose of existence. To become fully human means to use our highly developed
capability of thought to raise our existence above that of mere organism. Because if we don’t
think, we are no more than animals, simply eating, sleeping, working and reproducing. Human
life needs self- analysis and examination for its growth. An understanding of the experiences
gained in life at any particular time enriches one’s engagement with the self and the universe.

2. How does one admission of his own ignorance a prerequisite of his attaining enlightenment?
- Socrates was considered a wise man because he knew that he did not know anything. And I
think that what made him prerequisite of attaining enlightenment. Since enlightenment is
positive planned ignorance leading to the acquisition of knowledge through education. It is
taking the knowledge shared and understanding even embracing how much you don't know. This
allows you to start digging in for further understanding and a practical knowledge base that lets
you take action

3. Evaluate Plato’s theory of knowledge/theory of forms/world of idea. Discuss its strengths and

weaknesses. Do you agree with his theory?
- The theory explains why we all recognise the same essential elements in something, as they
have bits of a Form. But the problem is that the theory Plato says we recognise the Forms
because of our previous existence in the realm of Forms, but there is the no proof for that. But
even though there isn’t any proof I would still agree with his theory.