Socrates Believes that psychic harmony is the greatest good, and that the result of it is
moral (rational) behavior. He also believes that if you have a healthy body and soul
then you are in psychic harmony with yourself. He says that this is good intrinsically
and instrumentally. Which means that it is good for its own sake and the sake of the
consequences. Therefore, immoral behavior is a result of an unbalanced personality and
leads to irrational behavior. Psychic harmony is a psychological condition and makes one
moral, which according to Socrates is a social condition. Psychic harmony has no
motivation. You either have it or you don't. Moral behavior comes from your own beliefs
and desires. If one is bad or unjust in the social sense it is because of their
sensuality, greed, or vanity. This is because of a disordered psychological condition.
According to Socrates where there is "psychic harmony," the motives for injustice in the
social sense will be eliminated.
I believe that Socrates is correct. If you are at peace with yourself you are also
morally right towards society. Those that aren't are usually immoral and don't do what
is considered right by others. I do not think it is possible to be in psychic harmony
and yet act immoral. It may be possible, however, that if one is immoral, and wishes to
be moral, they could learn to be in psychic harmony if they really wanted it.
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