Essay On Roman Ethics

In my opinion I would have to say that the Romans would be the most ethical group that we have covered so far within the course. My reasoning behind my choice would be the way that they lived their life during that time. Still today you can find reenactments portrayed from events that occurred during this era. One that is spoke about in the text book is that of Brutus standing over the murdered body of Julius Caesar. The text states that “the drama of Roman history has provided the script for revolutions and conquests many times over. Even the collapse of Rome’s ancient empire has been compared to the decline of the British and Russian empires in the twentieth century. Ethics is defined as an area of study that deals with ideas about what …show more content…
Let’s look at the economic problems of the Romans. The constant wars and spending had major effects on the Romans as well as it is on us today. Look at the many different wars that the United States has been involved in and still involved in today. Our government spends billions of dollars each year to fund these wars which has major impact on our economic structure. Just like the Romans the oppressive taxation and inflation widened the gap between the rich and the poor. Does this sound familiar? Still today the rich become richer and the poor become poorer. The Romans had corruption within their government. This is very familiar in our times today. How many times do we turn on the news and see a story about someone somewhere within our government that is being investigated for some reason or another. Decline of Christianity and religious values every day we here of another story that prayer is trying to be removed from one of our schools or some group is fighting to have a bible that has been in place for years removed from a government building. So I feel that someday just as the Romans did us as a nation will