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[Wilson89]

Hello,

I am dealing with my Ancient philosophy paper, help please!

Requirements: Your answer should demonstrate your familiarity with the text.When you cite a passage, it is important to explain how you understand it
and how you see it relating to the points you are making. The meaning of
these texts is not self-evident. That is why you are being asked to develop
your interpretation by showing how you are reading the material.

Topic:
) At one point in our reading, Aristotle states that the intellect of our (human)
soul relates to the truth in the way the eyes of the bat relate to the sunlight.
What do you think Aristotle means when he says this? What does he want us
to consider here? Relate the meaning of this statement to our readings more
generally, by focusing on either the image of the cave in Plato’s Republic or
on Aristotle’s Metaphysics as it presents sophia (wisdom) and philosophical
inquiry as human possibilities. How does philosophy in this way appear to
challenge or alter our more conventional views about knowledge?

From the text: "Since the difficulty is of two sorts, the cause is not in the things but in us; for in just the way that the eyes of bats are related to the light of mid-day, so also is the intellect of our soul related to those things that are by nature the most evident of all. And it is right to feel gratitude not only to those whose opinions one shares, but even to those whose pronouncements were more superficial, for they too contributed something, since before us they exercised an energetic habit of thinking. "

My understanding for this: The difficulty of knowing the truth is from human's limited visionary ability and the indeterminate depth of the truth(knowledge or nature) itself. So Aristotle claims that the brighter the light is or the more eyes address on the truth( nature), the the truth is becoming more truthful and clear.

Is this a good way to explain the understanding of the text? Also please give me some advice about my thesis elements: philosophical insights, the truthfulness of the truth(knowledge), inquiry and wisdom. How to organize them well.

thanks,
Wilson

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Consider bats - how and what they see.
Consider Aristotle - how he regarded the intellect of normal people, and how little he understood of physics. (Consider, too, the convoluted grammar, and try to straighten it out by removing all non-essential descriptions and modifiers.)
Compare and contrast truth with Truth.
That should give you a point of entry. You still have to bring your own understanding to the relation of human capacity for truth and dark-adapted eyes to sunlight.