While away from home Socrates never went far, he always stayed very close to home often wandering through the agora (an Ancient Greek market place) and discussing his ideas with students, friends and other people he found in the street. Socrates believed in questioning people and the way they ran their lives, claiming that “the unexamined life, for a human being, is not worth living”. His main focuses with his philosophizing was on human relationships, ethics and politics. He believed that all immoral behaviour is a result of lack of knowledge, from not knowing the right thing to do, and therefore not making the right decision. He claimed “when we know what is right, we will do what is right”. Socrates’ solution to this issue, was to always question

You would like to think that no one would purposely make an unjust decision. However if you look at any corporate business in today’s world, they make decisions everyday to try and increase the wealth/prosperity of their business, especially if it means the downfall of another, because therefore there is less competition, and even more wealth for the business. However if each person were running to Socrates’ theory, and these people were all trying to be ‘good men’, as you would hope they would be, then they never would have made the decision to try and increase the wealth of their business. As this could lead to the downfall, and loss of so many others, and therefore it is an unjust decision, and only profits one party.

The above quote was a very famous one that Socrates’ had often preached during his time. I believe it basically means that with every choice you are ever faced with, there are only two possible outcomes, and the only ‘right’ one to choose is not necessarily the one that best pleases you, but the one a ‘good man’ would choose. Your typical ‘good man’ is someone who always chooses the moral decision, and therefore contains a sense of

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