Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Plato believed that there were three laws of nature and if we followed these three laws, we would have the perfect government. The first law can be summed up as to "seek peace but if you cannot obtain that goal than defend yourself at any means possible." Also, one thing he said that really struck me was that he said, "people always strive for peace no matter if they had a bad start to their day or what." This is a nice thing to think about because a lot of times people just assume that the world or the human race itself is just generally evil but this statement is almost comforting to me. Another thing that struck me was a quote by Hobbes which was, "promises are just words, but a covenant you will hold because there are ramifications if you don't keep you're covenant." Finally the last two laws were everybody gets the same amount of power, and always keep your promises.

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