The value of money in relation to duty? deconstructing individualism.

submitted by HibikiBlackCaudillo from self.conspiracy

When it comes to the social and political power that people gain in society after gaining money, a good philosophical question would be to what extend should they use that power for the sake of their own collective or not. While I think people should have freedoms, I'm rather cynical towards people's judgement when it comes to ethics.

I suppose education should play a role in influencing the ideal citizens in order to solve these questions. It's not something easy to do but I still think people should seek the answers.

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Are you acquainted with Plato’s Republic? He doesn’t have a good prognosis for even his ideal society.

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Yeah. I differ from him in that. I'm very cynical about how modern societies have placed so much value on libertarianism. But in a more ideal regime I'm sure people would be able to achieve great things and they already have in the past.

The Jesuits themselves are a group of corrupt Neo-Platonists and they use deranged forms of his philosophy. Capitalism and Communism are derived from Plato's ideal of "Oligarchy", for example.

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The Jesuits are kind of heretics today.