Throughout history many people have tirelessly tried to find answers to the problems we face in everyday life. One solution to understanding our problems is through philosophy, and the most basic question philosophy trues to answer is what justice is. Plato was the first person to ever publish an answer to how humans should and shouldn’t act, including how to raise children, and be a functioning member of society. Many other philosophers have looked at Plato as an example for what life is. A few of them like what he speaks, but the intelligent know he is wrong from beginning to end. Plato had three main ideas for life that are all wrong: intentional education, pain, and self-evaluation. Plato’s first idea to living the perfect life is to …show more content…
Everyone struggles, and we must continue to carry on to be able to grow from the past. When Plato said, “Hardship equates the knowledge of the future,” (Book 2) he meant that the suffering we all face is fundamental to the flawless society. This can easily be translated into everyone’s lives since we have hardship. We know how much pain hurts. Hardship effects education, says Suzi Parker, “The single most important factor in determining student achievement is not the color of their skin or where they come from. It’s not who their parents are or how much money they have. It’s who their teacher is.” This teacher however, does not have to be pain. Pain experts have said, "Pain is absolutely avoidable in any modern sense of the term. Just walk away and forget about the problems that are plaguing your mind." Why on earth would we choose to endanger ourselves— physically or emotionally? The truth of the matter is, struggling doesn’t make you smarter. It makes you weaker. If you can live life without being in pain you’re the winner, not the loser. After facing this hardship, we are able to look ahead to the future, and with help leave behind the misery of the past