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Reflection: Plato’s Cave Recently, we looked at Plato’s cave metaphor. Plato describe show a person moves from a primitive comprehension of reality and develops a more sophisticated understanding of their world. This journal asks you to think about an important learning moment that you had inyour life.Reflect on when you had a significant “coming out of the cave”experience – that is, reflect upon a moment in your life when you had asignificant learning “breakthrough”- when you came to a newunderstanding of something and how you came to see it in a whole newway. Tell me about your “aha!” moment.Perhaps this moment came in learning an academic concept youstruggled with – or perhaps it came in learning a skill in sports orlearning to drive or maybe it was in theatre or dance or public speaking,etc. Perhaps this moment was a sudden flash of light or perhaps it was along struggle.Describe how you came to this new understanding and what it waslike to achieve this new level of thought.As you describe your experience, connect your understanding toPlato’s cave to demonstrate your understanding of Plato’s concepts.Faith1. Think about a very challenging moment in your life where yourfaith was strongly tested: this could be your faith in God or in yourself –perhaps this was your “dark night of the soul.”Faith isn’t necessarily about God but can be about trusting in yourown abilities to handle an uncertain situation.Think about when you had to “step out” in faith and do somethingcourageous. What was that experience like? Was it worse or not as badas you thought it would be? What helped in this experience? What didn’thelp? Did you feel God helping you or did you not feel God’s help?If you cannot think of a challenging faith moment for yourself(try hard!) then you may write about someone else’s experience.Faith and Science (contact)In the movie Contact, Jodie Foster plays an astronomer who listens to the skies for any
signal that would prove that intelligent extra-terrestrial life exists. She is mocked by those whotell her she’s wasting her time and not really doing science.She is pushed into a mystical experience that falls between faith and science. She has totestify that her experience was real – that she did meet the aliens and that her experience tookeighteen hours. She is challenged in that according to the scientists the experience was only afew moments. Later, it is revealed that her flight recorders recorded eighteen hours of static –seemingly supporting her claim.It is a movie that asks the question are faith and science incompatible? Can science asFrancis Collins says, support each other: “The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome.He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory.”Or do you think that faith and science can find no common ground?Consider the questions to respond to:Do you think that science and faith are two worldviews that are exclusive from eachother? In other words, that they can find no common ground?Do you consider faith to be a valid way of knowing the world (or inner world) around usor is the only valid way of knowing the world around us through objective and measurable facts?In our world where the scientific method is the dominant way of experiencing reality, doyou think that subjective knowledge (faith, feelings, intuition) has any value?Consider these questions and write a 2 page reflection (you can write one page more ifyou wish). You may instead / in addition reflect upon different ideas the movie has generatedfor you
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