Plato and John Locke

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Plato and John Locke

Introduction

English philosopher John Locke was versatile man who studied at the University of Oxford, where he received his doctorate in 1658. Although his specialty was the medicine and was also a diplomat, theologian, economist and professor of ancient Greek and rhetoric and got renowned for his philosophical writings, in which laid the foundations of liberal political thought. Locke approached such ideas as a doctor and was secretary to the Earl of Shaftesbury, leader of the Whig Party, an opponent of absolute monarchy in England of Charles II and James II. Converted to the defense of parliamentary power, Locke himself got persecuted and fled to Holland, where he returned after the triumph of the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 English. Locke was one of the main ideologists of the English Protestant elites that clustered around the Whigs came to control the State by virtue of that revolution and consequently, his thought has exerted a decisive influence on the political constitution of the United Kingdom to the present. He defended religious toleration to all Protestant sects and even non-Christian religions but was interested and partial character of liberalism. It became clear to exclude the right to toleration to atheists as Catholics (being the clash of these systems with the key Protestant religious conflicts bleeding coming to the British Isles and Europe as a whole).

Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens, the most famous student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. His work in the form of philosophical dialogues have survived throughout had a huge influence on ancient Greek philosophy in general and the western philosophical tradition until today. Plato, among others, wrote the Apology of Socrates, which got regarded as a relatively accurate record of the apology of Socrates at the trial which sentenced him to death, the Symposium which talks about the nature of love while two long dialogues, the State and the Law, described the ideal state. Plato born in Athens and came from an aristocratic Athenian family.

Discussion

Piety as a Virtue leads the Greeks and the political tasks, guided by the law of any disrespect causes the divine wrath and therefore a political crime but is hard to put the line between piety and impiety for each period. Even the asylum or truce violation got considered disrespectful to the gods and institutions.

We all want those around us, also people in positions of collective representation, we always tell the truth. Therefore, honesty is a value related to the decision to act upon the Truth and Justice, which also must be lived with humility. Therefore, it is honest who acts and speaks according to what is right, but that does not make such acts a stage for re-known for the others. So, recognize each his due and act based on their own principles. Being honest is to be real, according to evidence presented by the world and its various phenomena and elements, is to be genuine, authentic, ...