Societies, religions, and social groups today have adopted the ideas of many philosopher’s. They use these ideas in hope that it helps shape their community in a positive way. One of most influential philosopher’s is Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher. Plato has created many philosophies and ideas that we still look to today. One of Plato’s quotes was,“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” This is an idea that most people follow today and that has been used for years. It teaches us how to be kinder to people because we don’t know what they are going through. Another quote from Plato’s dialogue the Republic that people still believe in today is,“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know
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We are not giving credit where it is due to the people who first made the ideas that we use today. Also we are forgetting about the intelligent ideas that they made and we can use those ideas to help make our society better and can assist us with some of the issues we are facing today. An appropriate example of Plato’s philosophy being used today is the 2016 Presidential Election’s. In the presidential elections we are deciding which candidate is the most qualified to be the President of the United States of America. When choosing a president, we look at how wise and intelligent they are and if they have the ability to solve the conflicts we are facing. For many years we have stuck to this way of choosing a president, but this year it is a bit different than the others. Today people are starting to look at our country as a business, so this causes them to be more attracted to a candidate with business experience. A candidate that claims that he can fix the economy with his business skills is Donald Trump. He is arguing that he is able to fix our economy with business skills and his money. This is the opposite of Plato’s philosophy. Instead of voting for the wisest candidate, he is trying to convince the people that his riches could solve the country’s problems. Trump want’s the people of this country to vote for him because of his money not his intelligence. By looking at this we can see that we are loosing the thought of these philosophies that could help our country be more
We are not giving credit where it is due to the people who first made the ideas that we use today. Also we are forgetting about the intelligent ideas that they made and we can use those ideas to help make our society better and can assist us with some of the issues we are facing today. An appropriate example of Plato’s philosophy being used today is the 2016 Presidential Election’s. In the presidential elections we are deciding which candidate is the most qualified to be the President of the United States of America. When choosing a president, we look at how wise and intelligent they are and if they have the ability to solve the conflicts we are facing. For many years we have stuck to this way of choosing a president, but this year it is a bit different than the others. Today people are starting to look at our country as a business, so this causes them to be more attracted to a candidate with business experience. A candidate that claims that he can fix the economy with his business skills is Donald Trump. He is arguing that he is able to fix our economy with business skills and his money. This is the opposite of Plato’s philosophy. Instead of voting for the wisest candidate, he is trying to convince the people that his riches could solve the country’s problems. Trump want’s the people of this country to vote for him because of his money not his intelligence. By looking at this we can see that we are loosing the thought of these philosophies that could help our country be more