... to admit this civic responsibility. To him, humans could not grow to reason and morality outside a polis. We know Socrates through his student Plato's writings. Plato sought a republic where people had knowledge of the Idea of the Good. He believed that personal property caused disunity, so for the upper two classes ( ... derived from Latin word nihil, meaning nothing). This doctrine said that since there is no God, then there are no objective values, morals, truth, justice, or purpose and all is chaos. Even science rests on questions. All attempts to give reason to morality are false. He...

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