Plato's Theory Of Moral Absolutism

Every human beings develop their own moral philosophy to a certain extent, as it is an important pillar contributing to their life, claims, and perceptions. In other words, us humans consider the natural way of reality, righteous choices, moral decisions, and their actual knowledge—what do we really know compared to the actual world itself? Though granted that humans do briefly grasp on their own context of reasonings and philosophic views, most of us remain unclear and undefined on what principles we ideally believe or not. In fact, we improvise our thinkings through the touted theories and tenets of the past, or directly follow one’s open views. Having said this, it is fair to assert that this reality comes in light of the basic categories …show more content…
He affirms that in every situation or case, there are universal laws in which it dominates the conceptual differences of a good or a bad action. Indeed, these fixed law codes may consider the ethics of basic actions, including the action of murder—whether it is a right or wrong choice to make, but it fails to dig deeper into the reasonings of murder, the original cause that can totally turn around the dismal nature of murder. In the famous case trial of Lena Baker vs. Georgia state 1944, Lena Baker has murdered a man after he was trying to force Lena to have sex with him, thus trying to rape her. After the man tried to attack her with a steel pipe for not listening to her, Lena, in an act of self defense, held the man’s gun and shot him dead. Although the case itself outweighed the codes of both first and second degree murders, along with voluntary and involuntary manslaughter by a preponderance of evidence which exceeded reasonable doubt, she was charged as a capital murderer, because she did murder a man, which resulted in her imprisonment. Was this really fair for Lena Baker? It was the only choice for Baker to escape rape, another action that is deeply moral, but nonetheless she was imprisoned according to the laws of “don’t …show more content…
As the saying goes, “If you really had better judgement than you used, you would have done it”. Admittedly, this can only be formulated if there were only rationalistic features in our reality. To this date, there are lots of non rationalistic factors that counters the rationalistic moral philosophy, including emotions, instincts, impulses, motivations, and reasons. Take for a simple example, you have a child, and your child is so sick of a disease that can possibly lead to his death. There is only one person that knows the cure, but to receive the medication, you must pay an excessive amount of money in return, which you currently don’t have. Since the you need the treatment immediately, the only way to get the money is by stealing; its almost impossible to earn all that money in time before the child dies. Eventually, you steal enough money. Had Socrates’ philosophy has questioned the sanity in this case, then you wouldn’t know that stealing is bad. But in fact, to this day, we all know by basic learning that stealing is an immoral action—we just opt for our priorities that are affected from non rationalistic forces, which are emotions to save one’s life, in this particular