Saturday, July 19, 2008

Good & Evil

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance"
- Socrates

Do I agree with this?
Certainly not.

Perhaps I would, if I knew what deep thought lead Socrates say it.
May be, he thought that, knowing what is good and what is evil, will refrain people from doing evil deeds. 

Although, I am amused, when people do things, fully knowing its impact. It makes me think, they get evil pleasures in their deeds. Perhaps the new rule of the game is "Who wins" rather than "Who does it right". Or may be this is the rule all along and I wasn't aware of it.

Am I in a different world than that living by people who agree with Socrates?

4 comments:

Unknown said...

I also don't agree with socrates,,, For only good is which takes us near to Supreme Being, rest everything is fake

Thamiz Priyan said...

///Anukool said...
I also don't agree with socrates,,, For only good is which takes us near to Supreme Being, rest everything is fake//
ஆமாம்! :)

Anonymous said...

Perhaps you are stressing urself on finding the good and evil. That is why you dont agree.

I believe socrates meant that
'The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignoring that knowledge of what is good.'

Whatever you do, you have the knowledge of what good is, but if you ignore that it is good, you end up doing evil things.

am confused now, so i think i'll ignore what i said and act as if i din comment anything.

Meena Athmanathan said...

:) Good one Parthiban!