Answer to Question #291290 in Philosophy for Junior

Question

Develop Plato's ethical thoughts

Answer 1

Plato maintains a virtue-based eudaemonistic conception of ethics. That is to say, happiness or well-being (eudaimonia) is the highest aim of moral thought and conduct, and the virtues are the requisite skills and dispositions needed to attain it. Eudaimonia, or "well being," is the virtue that Plato teaches we must all aim toward. The ideal person is the person who possesses eudaimonia, and the field of ethics is mostly just a description of what such an ideal person would truly be like. Reason represents the soul that guides a person to truth. Additionally, to achieve the goals, Reason trains his horses so as to work in unity. He should have determination and vision so as to achieve the aims.