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Reading Quiz 2
Name: Nemitt Sopraseuth
Date: 10-12-2023
Directions
: In your own words, answer the following questions in one to three sentences. If you
think some answer could be longer, either summarize your answer more concisely or cover what
you can in three sentences, focusing on quality over quantity. Avoid grammatical and spelling
errors.
Grading
: No mark will be made for a correct or mostly correct answer (meaning you
’
ve earned
full credit); a
“
W
”
will be given for a wrong or mostly wrong answer, no answer, or when the
grammar is very poor (meaning you
’
ve earned no credit); and an
“
H
”
will be given for a partly
wrong answer, an incomplete answer, or some grammatical errors (meaning you
’
ve earned half
credit). Each question is worth 1.5 points, for a total of six points.
1.
From the reading by Plato, describe the argument that harmony is to the instrument as the soul
is to the body and Socrates
’
response.
Plato’s perspective of the soul from the “dualist” line suggests that the soul is separate from
the corporeal body and is unlike anything material, this solidifies the thought that the soul is im-
mortal which he showcases in his work
Phaedo
. It depicts of Socrates’ sentence to death by the
Athenian Court, recounting of musings made to on the nature of the soul prior to his death, three
arguments are made and it’s Simmias who argues against him that the soul depends on the mate-
rial of the body, much like how the harmony of a lyre’s song depends on the strings of the instru-
ment, if the strings (Body) perish, so does the song (Soul). Socrates objects however, he deter-
mines that while an instrument and its harmony go with one another, the soul and body don’t
have this relationship, the body can have desires for pleasures such as drinking but the soul is not
inclined to follow through with the body’s urges.
2.
Summarize the idea that Davis defends in his paper on resurrection.
Within Stephen T. Davis’ work, he aims to describe a theory in regard to the resurrection, contex-
tualizing it based Plato’s dualism of the body and soul and discerning the differences between it
and Christian views on the soul and body. Christians see the body and soul as a psycho-physical
existent, yet the soul is perceived as being able to temporarily exist separate from the body, such
as in death and is to eventually reunite with the body following being risen and becoming a “glo-
rified body”. Though it answers many questions about the soul, it falls apart to skeptics regarding
one’s personal identity such as how God would materially reassemble the body and what features
of identity are lost upon the soul leaving and reuniting with the body, the latter seems to have
theories that the soul is unobservable and thus unable to verify or establish personal identity.
3.
Summarize Pascal
’
s view of the meaning of life.
With Pascal’s work on
Pensées
, it begins with dour precautions of the viewpoint that
human nature is inherently filled with much personal opposition, susceptible to wickedness and
corruption, only able to be redeemed and save through God. Due to this however, there is
constant nature with humanity to “transcend ourselves,” striving to improve through these
adversities and find our meaningful existence by continuing to go beyond the perceived limits of
human nature. Many prior philosophers gauge that truths can be found by anyone looking under
the same rational method, but Pascal objects to this, implying the need for openminded
perception in order to find truths currently unavailable to oneself.
4. What
’
s the difference between relative and ultimate significance, and what two conditions
does Craig argue must be met in order for there to be ultimate significance?
William Lane Craig holds a viewpoint that faith and religious beliefs are a necessity in order
for humanity to find meaning and answer about the questions of life, without God and the aspect
of immortality, there wouldn’t be an ultimate meaning in human life. Everything in Craig’s pas-
sage of
“The Absurdity of Life without God”
points to the eventuality of death and the end,
whether it’s the grand scale of the universe, the human race as a whole, of the livelihoods of indi-
viduals, it all ends in death. Even any endeavors made by individuals to better humanity seeming
meaningless to Craig, creating what could be seen as relative significance, Ultimate significance
has to reach the scale of impacting a universal perspective and is noted to only be found in the
presence of both God and immortality. William argues that the presence of God is how humanity
managed to develop its morality and sense of justice while the concept of immortality allows us
to live with the knowledge that we aren’t doomed to die.
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