Activity: Inquire and Discover

1. Read the passage from “Plato’s Allegory of the Cave”

(Critical thinking, Communication, Character)

“Some prisoners are chained inside a cave, facing the back wall. Behind them is a fire,
with people passing in front of it. The prisoners cannot turn their heads, and have
always been chained this way. All they can see and hear are shadows passing back
and forth and the echoes bouncing off the wall in front of them. One day, a prisoner is
freed, and dragged outside the cave. He is blinded by the light, confused, and resists
being led outside. But, eventually his eyes adjusts so that he able to see clearly the
things around him, and even the sun itself. He came to realize that the things he
thought were real were merely shadows of real things, and that life outside of the cave
is far better than his previous life in chains. He pities those still inside. He ventures
back into the cave to share his discovery with the others—only to be ridiculed because
he can hardly see (his eyes have trouble at first re-adjusting to the darkness). He tried
to free the other prisoners but they violently resisted (the other prisoners refuse to be
freed and led outside, and they even tried to kill him)”.
(https://wmpeople.wm.edu/asset/index/cvance/allegory)
2. What does this story mean?

The story means, being ignorant people and comparison of the influence of
knowledge and beliefs in human life.

3. How does this passage from Plato help you turn your attention toward the right
thing (i.e., truth, beauty, justice and goodness)?
This passage from Plato helps me to turn attention toward the right thing by
knowing the importance of truth where it’s effectively stated by the allegory

Activity: Empiricists vs. Rationalists (Critical Thinking, Communication)

Directions: Using the Venn diagram below, write the differences and similarities between how
empiricists and rationalists acquired knowledge.
Empiricists Rationalist

Uses experience Epistemology Reason

Promotes
Inductive skepticism Deductive

Belief in blank Belief in

state mind Innate ideas
Direction: Make a reflection paper on Truth. (Critical Thinking, Character, Creativity,
Communication)

Guide Question: What is truth? How you tell the truth to others?

Many people believe on famous line “Honesty is the best policy” by William
Shakespeare. It says that honesty is one of the most important characteristics of a
person because it affects and reflects on personality of one person. Honesty can be break
but it has a huge effect, it can damage trust of person. But there is one thing that has
connected to honesty and it is the truth. Now what is the truth?

For me, truth is base on reality or facts. Just like honesty, telling the truth is very
important characteristic. Sometimes, telling the truth can hurt other people’s feelings,
but it is better to tell the truth than a lie that’s why telling the truth is one of the keys
to keep a relationship. Now that we know the truth, how I tell the truth to others?
I can tell the truth to others by being honest and avoid lying.

Therefore, we must be honest on telling the truth because it builds trust and
keep relationship to others. It also indicate that being truthful means that we can grow
and mature, learning from our mistakes.