socrates

Money and Reputation more important than Wisdom and truth Throughout history money has been providing happiness and joy to most people. Allowing people to be free from financial issues and allowing then to achieve financial dreams however, money is not the total answer to success and happiness. Wisdom and truth are more important. The great Greek philosopher Socrates warned his fellow citizens by saying “are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul.” Unfortunately Socrates said that hundreds of years ago but this is a challenge that still relevant in today’s world because this world that we live in is full of mindless and unconscious people who believe that money and their reputation is the path to success and happiness. I personally disagree with this believe because I think that wisdom and truth are more important to success in wisdom and truth lays the foundation of every person. Once we have the wisdom money becomes secondary. Every day people are becoming more concerned with making money to enjoy the care free lifestyle that is very popular these days. Unfortunately, they do not realize that their life is based on material possession because they believe that acquision and consumption are necessary to their satisfaction in life and that more consumption will make them happier. One great example about this issue was brought up in a discussion in class by one of my classmate. She stated that some people in New York City camp out for days on one line of the apple store just to obtain the new iPhone. This example correlate to the challenge posed by Socrates to his fellow citizens from the example given by my classmate one can clearly perceive that society places a higher value on material goods rather than personal wellbeing’s or relationships with others. On the other hand some people say that money makes the world go