Greek Philosophy

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‘Greek’ Reflection Paper


What are morals? Does everyone have morals? If so, what morals are just and

what morals are unjust? Is it just to kill someone even if your life is in danger? Is

it just for a professional basketball player to play for the money and not for the love of

the game? These are some questions that you should ask yourself when thinking about

what is morally right and what is morally wrong. Everyone has different morals and

beliefs about everything. My morals are doing what is best. If my life was in danger

and it came down to killing someone, I would kill that person. I am not going to just

stand there and let that person kill me. If I had something to defend myself, like a gun,

I would use it to the best of my ability to protect myself from any harm. Another strong

belief that I have is about cheating. If I had the chance to cheat on a test I would not do

it. I feel that I am in school to learn and to plan my future. Cheating off someone’s test

would not help me or benefit my needs anymore than failing the test. I would learn more

by failing the test, to see what I missed and what I needed to study more, than to cheat.

There are four reasons why we should behave justly. 1) To avoid

punishment. (Benko, notes) If we behave unjustly we will soon be punished for those acts

and most human beings don’t like to be punished in any way. People will kill themselves

to avoid punishment. 2) If we could get away with crimes, we would commit them.

(Benko, notes) If we knew that we could get away with killing someone we would have a




major decrease in population. Today so many people have so much hate for one another

that if we could just go outside and kill someone, just because we didn’t like them, then

we would. 3) The truly unjust person would have to be perceived as just. To be truly

unjust, he or she woul...