Week 2 of 2025

The reason humankind has been struggling to find greatness is that the search was and still is through areas such as purpose, reason, and questions of immortality, which are the wrong source for the motive.

Looking back over thousands of years at ancient philosophers, humankind’s history, forms of governments, and the rises and falls of empires, we can find the same desire for more knowledge, wisdom, and greatness as that which plagued Adam and Eve.

In Plato’s famous dialogue The Republic, he lets one of his characters, Adeimantus of Collytus, tell the story “The Ring of Gyges,” which is the tale of a man who questioned the true nature of humankind.

Adeimantus inserts that the lesson is clear: men will take advantage of others and will break the laws, including moral laws, whenever they think they can get away with it and it will help them socially.

On the contrary, Aristotle claimed that all of humankind’s decisions seem good to the one making the decision at the time (that humankind has good intentions).

Which one is correct? Or are they both correct?