SHORT PAPER #1–DUE DATE: Wednesday, Feb. 21 (during in-class period) Posted Jan 31, 2018 12:12 PM 1. What does ″The Sandman″ teach us about ontology (to question the meaning of being or existence) AND epistemology (to question what, how, and limitations on knowledge)? Develop a case study analysis of ″The Sandman″ in relation to questions, tensions, or consequences raised by our assigned readings and classroom engagement. Use Vicktor Frankl and other distributed resources to defend your analysis. Substantiate your answer by developing an interpretation or critique of a character (or characters) that focuses on an organizing issue, theme, or idea present in the text. 2. In book four of the Republic (444d-e), Plato writes the voice of Socrates as saying: ″Producing health is a question of arranging the elements in the body so that they control one another–and are controlled–in the way nature intends. Producing disease is a question of their ruling and being ruled, one by another, in a way nature does not intend…In which case, virtue would apparently be some sort of health, beauty and well-being in the soul, while vice would be disease, ugliness and weakness.″ Across our reading of selections from books four, six, and seven of Plato′s Republic, a clear relationship is developed between just things, true things, beautiful things, and good things. Investigate this relationship by answering the following question: what makes Plato′s city both an ethical and prudential ideal, both maximally just and maximally happy? You may make full use of our textbook′s chapter on Plato and ″The Psycho-politics of Justice″ in developing your analysis on the content of Plato′s position in the Republic. You must answer BOTH of the questions. The limit is 600 words for each response; please include a word count at the end of your document.