Is Plato Right Or Wrong Essay

are right and wrong no matter the content of the act. It should be completely wrong to not treat everyone with respect based on who they are. Race, religion, sex and even medical diagnosis shouldn’t matter. Plato was an absolutist and he thought that as well as things being right and wrong, he thought that goodness itself really exists even after life itself. The highest form, the form of goodness had brought up the question of ‘What is goodness itself?”. Plato thought that goodness itself was the highest form of reality, which is an objective or absolute thing that existed eternally, beyond our limited world. He valued goodness very highly, comparing it to having the same importance that the sun has. We can look at this as having values and realizing that everything is important and good as well as all people. All people have a meaning to our society. We are all different because if we was all the same, we would be complaining of how bored we was. Plato thought that every moral situation was either right or wrong, and that our minds which were “distorted between pleasure and pain” could not perceive circumstances correctly, because we could not
For instance, it is important to understand that we as people do what we want to do because we decide to. Not because we’ve been ordered to do. We must work as a group to achieve our ending goals. When we look at our occupations and how we do our job this is a concern. If someone’s orders are to follow orders from someone else then their job wouldn’t be very interesting. Not very fulfilling. But when you let others have a real say in the way things are done, they are most likely to accept the challenge. This is what I’ve learned doing my service learning project and watching how these staff interact with the clients. We need to give everyone the life they deserve to have a chance at