In everyday life, one constantly sees instances of people who are unjust seemingly leading perfectly happy lives, while the good people who live honest lives suffer. This is a question that is constantly bothering humanity since time immemorial. In the Western civilization, the Greek Philosophers Socrates and Plato were amongst the first to examine this question. This essay will clearly argue that one should be moral since morality has benefits that immorality does not possess by examining the episode of the conversation between Socrates and Thrasymachus as well as from Plato’s Apology.
During one of their regular philosophical
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