3/27 Plato Assignment
Q. Short Paragraph – Personal Reflection: Before reading the selection from Plato write at least one full paragraph on this question: Why do you think Plato (or anyone else) would want to censor Hesiod? Remember that Hesiod was the poet who wrote about the fight between the gods and the titans.
A. I think Plato would want to censor Hesiod because Hesiod has alot of strong opinions about the Gods and Goddesses. They somehow can influence others that this version of their story is correct, or this is what they must believe. I also think that Hesiod has alot of violence that wouldn't be a good influence on society.
Then read pp. 67-76 (Section I. Secondary or Literary Education)
Short Answers – Text based questions. Answer both questions
Q1. What are Homer and Hesiod guilty of?
A1. They both are guilty of misrepresenting the gods. By this, I mean they made up stories and poems, misinterpreting the gods, the true purpose of the Gods.
Q2.What are the two main characteristics of “god” and what are the laws/principles of story telling based on those characteristics?
A2. The two main characteristics of God, are good and perfect. God is the cause of good, and is incapable of causing evil. The cause of evil has no explanation, no responsibility, no factors of what may cause evil, if only we caused it ourselves. God is also perfect, he cannot change himself for he is already perfect, the only need to change is if there was any situation that went wrong, God is also incapable of causing harm or any evil upon us.
A. I think Plato would want to censor Hesiod because Hesiod has alot of strong opinions about the Gods and Goddesses. They somehow can influence others that this version of their story is correct, or this is what they must believe. I also think that Hesiod has alot of violence that wouldn't be a good influence on society.
Then read pp. 67-76 (Section I. Secondary or Literary Education)
Short Answers – Text based questions. Answer both questions
Q1. What are Homer and Hesiod guilty of?
A1. They both are guilty of misrepresenting the gods. By this, I mean they made up stories and poems, misinterpreting the gods, the true purpose of the Gods.
Q2.What are the two main characteristics of “god” and what are the laws/principles of story telling based on those characteristics?
A2. The two main characteristics of God, are good and perfect. God is the cause of good, and is incapable of causing evil. The cause of evil has no explanation, no responsibility, no factors of what may cause evil, if only we caused it ourselves. God is also perfect, he cannot change himself for he is already perfect, the only need to change is if there was any situation that went wrong, God is also incapable of causing harm or any evil upon us.
The two principles that is proposed in the text is 1) God is good, and cannot cause harm nor evil. A person who is punished is not God's fault, but their own. That person needs to learn that they made a mistake, and they can also benefit from it, because being punished means what they had done was wrong. 2) God, nor any immortal God or Goddess can transform themselves into any way shape or form as they wish.
Q. Compare what you wrote in your personal reflection above (#1) with what Plato wrote. How close were you to what Plato wrote?
A. I think I was pretty close, my first thoughts were that Hesiod had alot of strong opinions about the Gods, and that what he has written doesn't seem all that true. But what Plato wrote was that Hesiod has misinterpreted the Gods.
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