Plato's "Apology"

Happiness and the "Good life"":

modern: the good life is whatever makes you happy

• socrates and plato(and many other):happiness is the by product of livin the good life- it leads to happiness becsuase it is the good / moral life

  • good life directs you to → happyness

• differnce between them?

  • 1. they are entirly different becsuaase the goods of both are different.

  • 2. the fist is vagve and directionless (were not good at determining what will make us happy)

    • This is the happy and the good life.

  • 3. the second focuses on a particular way of

• ****Wisdom:

  • 3. avoding disobedience to your “Better“

  • 5. education/laoking intothe reallity of things

    • being true to yourself and your “mission“.

  • the good life is not/doesn’t involve…

    • 1. materialism- things

    • caring about anything ( family, wealth ete) over the things that matter

• virtue:

  • moral standers

  • means: moral habit:

    • temperacne/selfcontral

    • rudence

  • one key thing that happens is temperance- having self-control and making the decision that is best for me

  • the one who is not ableb to contral themself is the one who is less happy -0 beucse theya re not able to have self contrals