Plato And Plato's Attainment Of Virtue

Plato: Attainment of Virtues

Attaining virtue is something that most philosophers did during their time. Philosophers employed a variety of definitions in order to define many of the issues their students and associates faced at different times. Philosophers like Plato and Socrates employed a quality approach that was to develop virtue in the minds and souls of their associates. The attaining virtue is the core subject that was to define the social, economic and political lives of the people. For example, attaining virtue in political democracy lead to the death of Socrates in the dialogue. After this, Socrates thinks about how the political rivals used poison to kill him for supporting a philosopher who was involved in politics. Plato said

He argues upon the maxims of virtue with basis on ethics for humanity. Plato maintains that for one to attain strong virtues they must conform to general ethics and code of conducts. Th focus of moral virtues is to maintain the well-being of humanity. For the actualization of that aim, Plato maintains that conformity to moral dispositions, thought and virtues are important prerequisite in that drive. The aim is to illustrate that the maintenance of the well-being of human beings is the core of moral thinking and virtues. Plato argues for the conception of happiness as a virtue to promote peace and harmony among people of different backgrounds. However, the conception of happiness as a virtue is a counter-example to many of the thought Plato did argue for that promotes the attainment of human virtues. The reasons here are that the Plato’s argument on the conception of happiness does not conform to ordinary views that many people understand. In addition to that, the early artworks by Plato portray the conception of happiness as a negative path that bases only on metaphysical suppositions that are not easy to comprehend. Secondly, in his works as the Republic Plato portrays the virtue of happiness as only a feeling that depends on external factors hence, not easy o illustrate and even understand (Begum, & Awan, 2013). Plato presents a description for the good and best for the soul. That is the soul feels a sense of contentment when it exhibits the strongest virtues. However, these descriptions for the needs of the soul do not go together at all times as time influences everything that is valuable. For these reasons, the attainment of virtues is at the center of Plato’s arguments in all his artworks and presents a feeling of contentment for being of strong