1. Do you think that modern science, as we’ve talked about it this semester, is independent of metaphysics? Or does it possibly rely on metaphysics in some important way?
2. Socrates was most famous for saying that “the unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.” What does this quote mean to you?
3. In the Republic Thrasymachus argued that you have to cheat in order to be successful in life, and also, if you always do the right thing, it puts you at a disadvantage. Does he have a point? Or maybe not? Cite some of the arguments that Socrates relied on against Thraysymachus in your answer. Were those arguments convincing?
