Blog Entry # 6

1."Rules aren't always right, and they're never happy. Let's try to design a perfectly just society. It'll have people sticking to the skill they're best at, supplying each other's needs." I do agree with this quote in some parts, but in others disagree. I think that rules are made as a basis for what the right thing to do is. But in some situations the right thing, might not be what the rules are. While having people doing what their best at would seem to be a key factor in a thriving civilization to produce the best of the best. While this is definitely important, what's more important are how the people feel. If someone was doing something they hated but were awesome at, I think it's more important for them to be a lot happier with their work and the quality suffering a little, instead of the best of the best quality and unhappy citizens.

2. Justice to Plato was "whatever the strongest decide it is, and that the strong decide that whatever is in their best interest is just." Socrates proved this argument to be false, by proving that the strong rarely figure out what is in their best interest, and this can't be just since justice is a good thing. I do not agree with what Plato thinks Justice. I think that Justice is the right thing that helps the most amount of people possible and causes no intentional harm.

3. I think that Plato's ideal republic had many positive and negative qualities in it. The positive were that Plato's ideal republic real being aristocracy, they would always rule by the best, and try to produce as much productive work as possible. A negative I saw in this ideal republic was that a state may be be intemperate if any of the lower groups do not obey one of the higher groups. I don't really agree with that, I think that everyone and every group should be treated equally.

4. My vision of an ideal state or republic would be one that could stand the test of time for being so flawless. It would have one main leader, who is justified that is in Charge of being the ultimate decision maker. Not as if they could make any irrational choices. They would have a whole group of advisers and supporting government to make sure there wouldn't be any unjustified actions. People would all have the same rights. I'm a big believer in equality.

5. This means that sometimes we get so caught up in how we see things, or how we think things are, when we don't take the time to step back for a moment and realize that not everything works the way that we see it. After we do this we can reach the knowledge.