Plato is he relevant today?
To quote from a poet “The good are sometimes good and sometimes bad” But the bad does not become bad he is always bad.
When forces of circumstance overpower a man of resources, skill, and virtue he cannot help but be bad. An honest man becomes the thief?
Is this a good man by forces of circumstance gone bad? It is hard to be good? It is difficult to be good, choose to strive to become good, this is possible, life is right or wrong, left or right, and it is choice. It is impossible to be good.
The descent of a great storm may make the pilot helpless, but the pilot that flies knowingly into a storm without honest evasive action is their consequence.
Financial Band-Aid may protect the wound but the temporary nature is that of the pilot that flies into the storm knowing the consequences.
Modern interpretation by mhazledine-barber of Plato, from The Dialogues of Plato by Jowett.
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