DUE WED 3/21 Republic Assignment

Q:
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?

A:

I think acting 'right' is doing what you personally think is appropriate and ethical. Not everyone thinks that 'right' is a certain thing, for instance you have Republicans and Democrats; they think that each others ideas are 'wrong' and that their ideas are 'right'. I think happiness is similar to my previous idea. Happiness is what you as an individual know brings you pleasure/excitement/contentment. i.e: Somebody could think that sports are really fun and somebody else thinks that computers are fun. If you told the computer guy to play sports and vise versa they would think their new activity is boring and would therefore be unhappy.

Socrates would agree with me for the most part. I think he wouldn't agree with my definitions for 'happiness', yet he would agree with my examples and everything else. I think 'homie T' wouldn't agree with everything. (once again i do not know enough about these 2 characters to properly guage what they would say.)