Causation

Aristotle brings up a point about the unmoved mover. He says that there is a God that determines everything that happens. He also claimed that they start the whole chain of events things that happen. Then the conversation got started in class about what starts the chain. This got me thinking that what could start the chain. Then I had the image in my head of a bottle of coke and Mentos. This is because everything has a cause before it starts. Usually its a chemical reaction. But for example, there are many theories about how the world cam into existence. Those are typically really controversial. Some people believe in science, religion, and some just dont really question it. But finding the cause that started the whole chain of reactions, could be the hardest part. There is nothing completly definite about how anything started. This is because the world was started way before people could actually write everything down that happened. It was all passed by oral tradition and could have been changed and some details left out. As awesome as it would be to figure out what started everything it  would ruin the actual thought of trying to figure it out for myself.

Responce to Meghan

In Meghans blog she talks about Plato's ideal society and how he excludes artists, poets, and musicians. I don't think he necessarily didn't include them because anyone can be an artist of any sort. I think that even in Plato's time, that making it as any kind of artist would have been hard. So they would have had to do their art on the side while they were a police officer, doctor, or whatever their main source of income is. I don't think he intentionally excluded them but just meant that they couldn't make it with out having another profession.

Education

Plato believed that only the educated people should run the government. This is because he thought that the people who wanted to be educated should be educated. Therefore, they would get power easier and they wouldn't abuse it. This is because they would know the pros and cons to it all. I do not agree with this because of the fact that in our history alone, the people who abuse power the most are the highly educated. This is because they know how to manipulate people. For example, Hitler manipulated a whole country in to liking him right after World War One. The highly educated are, usually, the ones who abuse the power the most.