Form of the Good

example of how even you can’t always determine what you’re really like inside and what you’re capable of. In many, but small ways, The Outsiders represents how things can be so different from what we first assume, proving that assumption is not a good path to walk, nor is judgement. Sometimes those who are judged and assumed to be something will prove to be so, but they also may not; creating a difficult and unpredicted situation. There’s always a second side to the story. There’s almost always…

and succeeded with a goal? Was is morally beneficial or was it for your own good? James Hurst, who wrote the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” has laid out information with pride. Pride with an impact can be plenty wonderful or terrible, but generally pride tells us who we are and how we can improve with ourselves. Pride can be wondrous in many ways which might not be as conspicuous, for Brother he has demonstrated the good side of pride. Pride has been a avail for Brother in availing Doodle…

genuine about what I was saying. The problem with teaching, and this happens in my field of law enforcement too, is the good employees don't get thanked. Just as good cops rarely receive a thank you I never see good teachers getting a thank you and when it comes to social justice, I think you need a thank you. So after seeing the template for this final exam I figured this was a good place to put it and to just give a few examples on why I am thankful. This class was lead fair, and was also very…

yeah, I can complain, and iddlI can point fingers, but I'm not good at railing against things effectively. I'm much better at talking about the things that make me happy. When I start focusing on the negatives too much, I tend to swerve headfirst into them, and then I miss all of the good stuff. This doesn't stop me from cursing things that are terrible, it's just that I don't know how to fix the bad, so I focus on making the good.…

I used to hate my handwriting; I despised it. My own mother used to deride me for it. She would tell me it must be illegible to anyone who wasn’t me. However, I knew that wasn’t true in the slightest - I couldn’t even read it myself half the time. So, I started to type everything, avoid handwriting at all times. Sometime sophomore year, my friend and I were working on a project together, and she had the loveliest handwriting. She wrote in condensed, flowing cursive that could make words…

It's a known fact that organized sports impact people's lives in a positive way. For example high schools are required to have players with good grades to play, many would answer that they meet these requirements because most sports are a big deal. Athletes will do anything to play the sport they love and learn skills throughout the experience. As organized sports continue to escalate people would benefit from knowing the positive effect it can have on a person. Sports keep people organized,…

means priest town. But my parents didn’t even know what the name Preston meant. My mom just liked the name because it sounded good with Lawson and my older sister's name, Madison. My middle name - Ray came from my dad because his middle name is Ray and my papaw on my dad's side was named Ray. These reasons are why I like my name because it is fairly unique, it sounds good with my last and middle name, and I could not imagine having a name other than Preston. I am a person that tries their…

jobs since I was sixteen, how I care for my father, or where I want to be in five years. I felt that, “Hi, I’m Jasmine Gragg. I’m 18, and I like the color red,” would be such a bore. Well-- it would be a good start but those are just facts of my life. Who I am is not the tragedies or the good memories. I write poetry when the sun sleeps. I love my family even if I don’t have a mother. I long for acceptance. I find beauty in myself and in those who cannot see their own. Nobody ever held my hand…

Understanding Plato’s Form of the Good can be very challenging. However, by understanding the hierarchy of Forms and the difference between the sensible and intelligible world we can make sense of Plato’s ideas. To start, we need to remember that Plato believed that everything we see around us is only an imitation of true objects. Before we were born our souls roamed the World of Forms. While our souls were in this world they learned about true knowledge. Everything that we know today is…

As Plato writes in the dialogue The Republic, the form of the good is responsible for all truth and knowledge in a society. Since Plato and his colleagues have been debating on how a city state should be ruled and the qualifications the ruler should possess, he begins to examine how the form of the good would be useful for a ruler’s education of the rational part of the soul. As Plato has previously stated, the rational part of the soul allows the mind to have knowledge and wisdom while trying…