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Plato's Lord Of The Flies: A Short Note On Mortality

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-------Mortality Rules are given to us so we will know how to live and act. Desires are restricted as well as our actions. Mortality tells us what is acceptable and guides our decisions, principles, or our actions. The Ten Commandments can be seen as laws of mortality, with how they tell a person how to live and what is right and wrong. Most of our morals are said to come from “above” or God, and shows us what is right and wrong. Mortality is often thought of as obedience but that is not true. It is about doing the right thing, not just obeying a higher power (ex. a king). Depending on the culture, the Mortality can change however slightly. Robert Solomon says in Introducing Philosophy, “Mortality, by its very nature, is supposed to be a set of universal principles, principles that do not distinguish between cultures or peoples or lifestyle. If it is morally reprehensible to kill for fun, then it is morally reprehensible in every society, in every culture, for every lifestyle, and for every person, no matter who he or she is. This will be true if the society or person in question does not agree with that moral principle.” (Solomon p.511) Mortality in each culture seems to change, but there are universal rules of moral codes that all people can recognize. …show more content…

But there are no grounds for us to judge what is evil or immoral. Different cultures have different morals; there is no way to say that they do not. In the textbook they had an example with the Greeks. The Greeks would label anything that was a Non-Greek “barbaric” because they would be so different than the Greeks. There is even a factual claim that different mortalities exist within different societies. The unknown is this found fact is that we are still unsure if they are only different on the outside or if they are completely

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