Socrates Vs. Plato

1) Quote by Socrates

"He who is richest is content with the least."

I agree with this quote because it's true that if someone had everything, they would not appreciate anything less. If a person already has the best of everything, their "standards" are a lot higher, even if waht they don't have might be better that what they do have.

2. What is justice to Plato?

Plato belives that justice embodies four great vitrtues: courage, wisdom, temperance, and justice. His idea came from utopian thinking, and he further explains those virtues.

3. What are the positive and negative elements to Plato's ideal republic?

The pros of this utopean society are that the people with more courage, intellegence and strength would have higher positions and poeple would be in good hands. But that cans are that only those people would rule, and the poeple who are samrt or wise, but lack one of the traits, or mess up once, would not be able to hold a high posotion anymore. The problem is that there is no utopian sociey, and humans don't live that way. A society can work very well if evetyone gets a say, and there are standards, but not standards for perfection.

4.What is your vision of an ideal state or republic?

My vision of an ideal republic is one where people do not get affected by modern ideas like politics and money, and don't start thinking in an uneffective way, but rather understand their situation. If people didn't have wars, (which are, in my opinion very dumb, especially knowing those desicions were made by adults) but thought a little more, then they might understand why they want war, and change their situation, not let their emotions control their "politics."

5. The allegory of the cave argues that the only thing standing in the way of knowledge is our insistence that the visual universe is reality.

The allegory of the cave is saying that because humans think that what they see and were told is true, they can't use the rest of their brain. That is probably for a good cause, because then we would have such power, that a little baby could probably destroy the world. But it's saying that we don't connect too much to the spiritual side of the world because our reality is what we see and hear, and we think that that is all ther is. But that's not all their is, because somehow, people get new ideas that nobody has ever heard before, or seen. How do they get them? Usually, by not thinking about "reality" and letting their mind drift away. People may consider them crazy sometimes, but teh allegory is saying that they are just thinking deeper, and it is not what most people consider normal. Maybe they are just using the other 70 -80% of their brain.