Respond to ONE of the following prompts as thoroughly as possible. Explain the key bits (don’t retell the parable) of the allegory of the Cave. What is happening? Explain and evaluate the Existentialist argument for human nature? Is it accurate, why or why not? Explain and evaluate the Rationalist argument for human nature? Is it accurate, why or why not?
Which writer proclaimed the existentialist assertion that as human beings, we are all "condemned to be free"?
Group of answer choices
Augustine
Turing
Locke
Sartre
Which of the following claims would be characteristic of atheistic existentialism?
Group of answer choices
human beings are free even in terms of their nature
human choices must always be made within constraints over which we have no control
human beings are distinguished by virtue of their ability to reason
the purpose of human reason is for human beings to continually improve themselves
Which philosopher argued that persons have reason and that the purpose for that reason is to know God?
Group of answer choices
Turing
Locke
Augustine
Aquinas
Augustine adopted the view that human beings are fundamentally rational and immortal from which previous thinker?
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Locke
Turing
Aristotle
Plato
In which work does Plato make the claim that human selves or souls are immortal?
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Nichomachean Ethics
Phaedo
Cebes
Leviathan