Reflection # 11

I am actually familiar with a lot of Socrates ideas and beliefs about life and its even now existing morals. Socrates never left an account of his works much less his beliefs because he believed that knowledge was something was that one must experience on their on and not attained by what someone else recorded. Some of his morals were quite intriguing. One of his morals that i believe totally is the value of the soul and the body. Socrates according to Plato's writings believed that if the soul will out live the body then death to the soul is greater than death to the body. Socrates stated it is much worse to have a rotting soul than to have a rotting body. This must have been the greatest knowledge Socrates had ever had when it comes to death. Socrates didn't just say the death of any soul but the death of an evil soul. He stated that he rather have an honorable soul than to have an groveling soul. He is right, if you think about this statement your body is only temporary. Once you die your soul departs from your body there for your body cannot feel anything. Now your soul lives on for eternity and if you don't believe in a a hell much less that it exists and that's your justification for doing evil then I wouldn't worry about your body i would worry more about the soul that live forever. Socrates theory of elenchus was the idea to question some one's morals, and values until they were contradicting themselves. When I first read about this theory it reminded me of a court system. In a court case the suspect is either guilty until proven innocent or innocent until proven guilty. The suspect or even the victim is interrogated with all types of questions to be proven guilty or innocent no matter who is innocent or guilty we still have innocent people locked up and the guilty ones roaming the streets and influencing our future. One of Socrates views of happiness is a conversation we all like to discuss and that's the conflict of good verses evil. Is it okay to lie or steal when it will benefit good? An example of this theory would be if you had a baby and no money to buy baby food or milk would it be a good reason to steal from someone else's business or store. I know most peoples defense would be yes its okay because if you don't do it the baby will starve to death or some other excuse. Truth be told this is wrong regardless of any way you decide to go about this whether it involves a baby or not. If it were your business and your way of making ends meet was the income of your business you would see it wrong. So just because it benefits the thief doesn't mean it will benefit the victim. There is nothing right or even acceptable of lieing or stealing even if it were to benefit someone else's life. Someone that steals big or small is a thief, someone who tells a lie good or bad is a liar, someone who does wrong is wrong, and someone who does right is only right. There is no way you can be both your either or.