Socratic Dialogue on Leading the Best Life (Other (Not Listed) Sample)
This sample was about writing a Socratic Dialogue (or a Dialogue with Confucius, using Socratic Method) where he identifies three fallacies during a discussion of an ethical issue. It was to be a dialogue between socrates and myself using the socratic method. The ethical issue I IDENTIFIED WAS AN ISSUE OF LEADING THE BEST LIFE AS WOULD HAVE BEEN SAID BY SOCRATES.
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Socratic Dialogue on Leading the Best Life
Surname: Hello, Socrates! I've been contemplating life and asking how I might live my best life.
Socrates: Okay, what have ye discovered up to this point?
Surname: Do you understand the concept of virtue?
Socrates: How would that relate to figuring out how to live the best life possible?
Surname: Becoming virtuous is the only way to have the best life.
Socrates: Regrettably, I am the unlucky one. I don't even comprehend the concept of virtue and how it relates to living a good life. Would you assist in figuring out what virtue is?
Me: Virtue is the ability to think and act in a morally correct manner while shunning wrongdoing. It's a desirable trait or manner of conduct.
Socrates: Elaborate on that, please.
Surname: For you to live a good life, you must learn to perform acceptable good deeds, and that's a virtue. By doing these, you become a good person.
Socrates: That means one must be good to perform acceptable good deeds?
Surname: Yes, it is the notion that humans have a base station, or identity, to conform to in order to thrive and be successful.
Socrates: I am sorry I can still not comprehend how these fascinating beliefs of a person's base station influence their thinking and decisions. This notion that being a decent person entails doing nice things excites me greatly. So if we concentrate on becoming decent people, then we will naturally see the occurrence of good actions?
Surname: Exactly.
Socrates: How will having virtue enable one to live happily?
Surname: Look at these few examples. If a person witnesses another person being robbed in the first scenario, a brave person would rush over and assist the deprived person. In the second scenario, one exemplifies the virtue of being honest to a friend. Suppose you witness your friend's mother indulging in infidelity and your friend's father passes away a few days later. In that case, an honest person will choose to tell his friend the truth after his father's burial to safeguard his friend's emotions at that moment. Lastly, another situation is to depict generosity as a virtue. Someone generous shares the little they have with those who don't have at all to ensure a balanced life. These cases demonstrate a concentration on being good as leading to taking an appropriate act.
Socrates: In the first situation, if the person
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