DUE WED 3/21 Republic Assignment

In your opinion, how can acting “right” (i.e. justly) help or harm the achievement of happiness? In your answer you need to first establish, in true Socratic fashion, what you mean by "right" (justice) and what you mean by happiness. What do you think Socrates would say about what you wrote and/or what do you think Thrasymachus would say?

‘Happiness depends on conformity to our nature as active beings. What active principles that nature comprises, and how they are organized into a system we learn in the immediately following books’.

I think that acting justly will hurt the community and people very much because it causes all the people to think alike. Meaning there is no room for change because everyone acts the way they are suppose to act.

Although in my opinion now, I think that happiness to each person, because what could make on person happy could not make another person happy. I think to live happy, you should do what you like. Also I think living ‘happy’ is living by your own standards and no one else’s. Personally that’s what I do. I used to live my life trying to please the people that surrounded me. I was always upset and extremely sensitive because I was so self conscious and felt as though I needed to be accepted by my peers. Not until recently did I start to live my life, because I realized there is a difference between being considerate of other people and putting them before myself. Meaning I would do anything to make the other person happy at my own expense.