Greek Philosophy

"Let him that would move the world first move himself." These words were wisely said by the Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates. I agree with this quote, because for a person to make a difference to the world they must first be able to deal with their personal problems. If someone has something important on their mind, they will not be able to focus on changing the world.

Another great Greek philosopher was Plato. Plato wrote about the "Nature of Justice." Many thought that justice was what the strongest and richest people thought was wrong and whatever was in their best interest was right. Plato writes that this is wrong, because often the strongest and richest do not know was is in their best interest. Plato says that "justice is a good thing."

Plato's idea of a "Ideal Republic" is that the strongest, bravest, and most intelligent should rule over everyone else. Next, the somewhat strong, brave and intelligent should police and defend the people. The not strong, brave or intelligent people should be at the bottom and only do manual labor. In his ideal society, people could not move up in statues and were born into their positions. This is a bad idea in my opinion because the smartest, strongest, and most intelligent will not always have the smartest, strongest, and most intelligent children. Similarly, the people who were not strong, brave or intelligent will not always have not strong, brave or intelligent children. So the society will never progress, and eventually the bottom class will revolt.

My idea of a ideal republic is a place where the bottom class gets an equal say in the government as the elite. Every occupation will have a union, so that everyone will have someone there to make sure they are not getting taken advantage of by the higher classes. The government is balanced, and the citizens, no matter how poor or stupid gets a say in the government.

The Allegory of the Cave says that the only thing in our way of knowledge is that fact that we assume that everything me see is true. Our virtual world is much different than the intelligent world. If we did not see the things we did then we would have no way nor reason to believe that they are true. The only reason we know things are real is because we can experience them.