Plato's Allegory
What does the cave represent?
Ignorance, being shielded from the truth
How many chapters is the Sermon on the Mount?
3
Describe Confucianism's superior man.
Educated in the liberal arts, self-aware/seeks improvement, applies learnings to social/governmental issues
What/who is a Brahmin?
An intellectual priest of Hinduism
What inspired Marx to write about class division?
Laboring conditions of the working class
As the escaped prisoners leave the cave, they're blinded by the sunlight. What is this meant to convey?
Someone leaving their ignorance behind in favor of the truth.
"If your right eye causes you to sin..."
"...pluck it out and throw it away."
Within Buddhism, what does the term "nirvana" mean?
Enlightenment
What is Samsara?
Reincarnation
Early capitalistic theory has strong ties to ________ economics.
"Let it be" economics; Laissez-faire
Who was Plato?
An Athenian aristocrat and philosopher.
Our professor told us that we could get away with only reading half of Emerson's "Self-Reliance" because he was on drugs and repeating himself constantly. What drug was Emerson on?
Opium
Buddhist beliefs state that ordinary life brings suffering, and the origin of suffering is ______.
Attachment
The Upanishads were composed by...
Anonymous thinkers
Smith believed the economy should be controlled by who?
The commonwealth/working class
Plato was the disciple of ____.
Socrates
In "Self-Reliance", Emerson displays the message that there is one thing that makes you a morally sound person. What is it?
Being your true self
“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will ____.” - Confucius
What do the terms "karma" and "dharma" mean?
Karma - the belief that fulfilling your duties will come back to you
Dharma - your duty as an individual
When was Marxist communism born?
During the industrial revolution
The Allegory of the Cave is framed as a conversation between which two people?
Socrates and Glaucon
Emerson's "Self-Reliance" was a product of what movement?
Transcendentalist movement
Within Confucianism, what are the Analects?
A short book put together by Confucius' students after his death
Within the Vedas, all embryos are male and only what produced a female baby?
Weak sperm
What do both of these systems have in common?
They're great on paper but often fail in practice.