As your 'tour guide', I'll try to make this an interesting journey. For your part, you will need to explore and investigate the conceptual landscape along the way. The journey will only be as interesting as you make it!
Our first issue is knowledge. Can we know anything? To what extent are our beliefs and opinions shaped by propaganda? We will first read Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" from Book VII of his Republic. This sets the tone for the course: Can we extricate ourselves from ignorance and the narrowness of our world views?
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