good vs goods
HUP 101
4/3/13
Paper #1
The Life worth Living Hey what’s up Erick, long time no talk. I haven’t spoken to you since the Graduation party you had at your house. That was a great party and it was cool that you got Kid Cudi to perform at your party. I remember that you were always the one in the group who always had to have the newest Jordan’s and expensive clothes. I attend LaGuardia Community College and I’m currently enrolled in an intro to Philosophy class and I have to say it has changed my perspective on life. In the class I’m currently learning about great philosophers such as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. I now understand the importance of the Good life opposed to the “Good’s Life”. The good life is basically going through life questioning things and self-examining yourself the goods life is basically a materialistic life which most people want to live today. Plato was a Greek philosopher and one of the students of Socrates. You probably remember learning a little about him from Mr. Kummel’s global history class. Plato wrote the Apology in which he gave his version of the speech that Socrates gave at his trial. Socrates was a philosopher and was known as the father of western philosophy. Socrates was put on trial by Athens and was charged with corrupting the youth, not believing in the gods of the state and believing in his own gods. In the apology Socrates says “and if I say again that the greatest good of man is daily to converse about virtue, and all that concerning which you hear me examining myself and others, and that the life which is unexamined is not worth living” (The Apology). I know that you might be thinking what the ideas of these people who died centuries ago matter, but they still are very important and can help us live the good life. In that quote Socrates was saying that we should carefully analyze our actions. We should take a look at our past and present life to see if there has been any change or growth. When we examine our life
4/3/13
Paper #1
The Life worth Living Hey what’s up Erick, long time no talk. I haven’t spoken to you since the Graduation party you had at your house. That was a great party and it was cool that you got Kid Cudi to perform at your party. I remember that you were always the one in the group who always had to have the newest Jordan’s and expensive clothes. I attend LaGuardia Community College and I’m currently enrolled in an intro to Philosophy class and I have to say it has changed my perspective on life. In the class I’m currently learning about great philosophers such as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. I now understand the importance of the Good life opposed to the “Good’s Life”. The good life is basically going through life questioning things and self-examining yourself the goods life is basically a materialistic life which most people want to live today. Plato was a Greek philosopher and one of the students of Socrates. You probably remember learning a little about him from Mr. Kummel’s global history class. Plato wrote the Apology in which he gave his version of the speech that Socrates gave at his trial. Socrates was a philosopher and was known as the father of western philosophy. Socrates was put on trial by Athens and was charged with corrupting the youth, not believing in the gods of the state and believing in his own gods. In the apology Socrates says “and if I say again that the greatest good of man is daily to converse about virtue, and all that concerning which you hear me examining myself and others, and that the life which is unexamined is not worth living” (The Apology). I know that you might be thinking what the ideas of these people who died centuries ago matter, but they still are very important and can help us live the good life. In that quote Socrates was saying that we should carefully analyze our actions. We should take a look at our past and present life to see if there has been any change or growth. When we examine our life
Cited: Chaffee, John. The Philosophers Way. 4thth ed. New Jersey: Pearson, 2013. Print. Plato. The Apology Aristotle. The Ethics