BALDEMOR, JOHN CHRISTIAN F.

11C-HUMSS

EXERCISES:

I. Look for five trusted friends and send them this message: “Ask me two questions about absolutely
anything. It can be deep or it can be trivial. It can be about myself or the world or life or anything at all.”
Afterward, compile these questions, and then classify whether they are framework questions or
philosophical questions.

FRIEND #1 Q1: Do you think our dogs have

Philosophical Question
a soul?

Q2: Do you think that humans

Framework Question
really believe about aliens?

FRIEND #2 Q1: Why is there something

Philosophical Question
rather than nothing?

Q2: Do you think that humans

Framework Question
evolved from apes?

FRIEND #3 Q1: Is our universe real?

Philosophical Question

Q2: are there really cats?

Framework Question

FRIEND #4 Q1: Can you really experience

Philosophical Question
anything objectively?
Q2: Do you think humans who
Framework Question
don't believe in God or gods can
live good lives?

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 FRIEND #5 Q1: Do we have free will?
Philosophical Question

Q2: Would it be possible to

Framework Question
wear them as fancy dress?

II. Socrates said, “There is only thing I know – and that is that I know nothing.” What do you think this
means? Do you agree with this statement? Write a short essay of 250 words.

This means every proof you have, must be backed up by another proof, and that proof too must be
backed up by another one. As we go down the infinite regress, we will reach a point where you have no
proof to back up a statement. Because that one argument can’t be proven, it then crashes all of the
other statements made up to it. This puts a stop to the infinite regress since it’s impossible to doubt our
own existence because simply by thinking, we prove that our consciousness exists. The real world is that
of “ideas” or “forms”. These are non-physical essences that exist outside of our physical world.
Everything in our dimension is just an imitation, or projection of these forms and ideas. For instance,
imagine the perfect apple, and then compare it to real world apples we’ve seen or eaten. Only exists in
the realm of forms, and every apple we’ve seen in real life is just a shadow, an imitation of the perfect
one. That being said, the theory of forms does have some major limitations. One of them is that a
human living in the physical / shadow realm, we can never know how an ideal form looks like. The best
we can do is to just think what a perfect apple, human, character, marriage etc. look like, and try to stick
to that ideal as much as possible. A more straightforward interpretation is that we can never be sure if a
piece of information is correct. Viewed from this perspective, “I know that I know nothing” becomes a
motto that stops us from making hasty judgement based on incomplete or potentially false information.
It is important to understand that these men were no less politicized, stratified, and, ultimately, normal
as we are. Everything about Socrates must be analyzed not only through Plato's subjective
interpretations and miscellaneous historical record, but also the day-to-day context of ancient Grecian
life and the social role of philosophers/sophists. When it comes to the deeply personal, uninformed
interpretations we have here, there is very little to do with Socrates at all.

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