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Plato’s Gorgias: Socrates and Understanding the Concept of Human Nature in Order to Live a Good Life
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This is a 4 page paper discussing Socrates’ dialogues within Plato’s Gorgias in showing that to live a good life one must have the proper concept of human nature. Throughout the dialogues of Socrates documented by Plato, Socrates argues about the “good” within man. For Socrates, the “good” in man is not necessarily what people think they need or desire to become happy but it is really what man needs by nature. One’s nature “daimon”, relates to one’s own potential and one’s inner self. This potential must be met in order to obtain happiness. According to Kealey (2003), for Socrates, no one does evil willingly but only in ignorance of their true good which must be fulfilled. Virtue is knowledge whereas vice is ignorance. For humans to live a good life therefore man must understand the true concept of his own human nature and this must be fulfilled and actualized. What actualizes happiness is good which is turn is actualized through self-knowledge.
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