Blogpost 8: The Perfect Society

In life, there is always a good and bad happening. In every people, there are always strength and weaknesses. It means, in this world nothing's perfect, nobody's perfect. People believe that in this changing world nothing is going to be perfect, but there is one person that believes that there is a perfect place, a perfect society that existing in this world. This person was named Plato, a great philosopher, and he is famous because of he's theories about a perfect place or perfect society. He made a book entitled "Republic", in the book he explains the perfect society in a triangle.

Based on the book, Plato says that in the triangle there are 3 class of people that exist in a perfect society. The lower class are the workers, workers are working for the society and they are the slaves of philosopher-kings. The middle class is the soldiers or the warriors, they are in the middle class because they protect their society and also the philosopher-kings . The philosopher-kings is in the top because the philosopher-kings is the leader and the society they control their city as they want and they are boss of all people in the city. I read an article entitled "Plato: The Republic" by Antonis Coumoundouros in the website "Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy", the article says that the book republic is all about justice. In the book, the justice was discussed by Plato and other foreigners and they found out that man could be happier if they got justice and the people that do not follow the orders of the philosopher-king would be punished and in that discussion the idea of a perfect society came. Atlantis is a example of a perfect society based on Plato's thoughts, it has a beautiful surroundings the whole structure was made by the workers. Atlantis is a rich and powerful empire, it was protected by the soldiers or what we called warriors by that time and this society was controlled by philosopher-king.

Why people still think of Atlantis? Why people want a perfect society? All of us wants a daily happy life, but we know that it wouldn't happen because this world is not perfect. There are many vision about Atlantis. I read an article entitled "The perfect society and ours" by David W Lawrence in the website "muddleglum.orchonhosting.net", the article says that perfect society could be define as people lives freely. Society with a strong culture of sharing each other, loving one another, people could work together without hurting and respecting each other is the vision of the perfect society.

This article also says that, a perfect society is can be possible if people would be open minded, people will be willing to help each other, and if people can express themselves without judgement of others. As long as people became selfish, the idea of a perfect society is impossible to make. People make the world beautiful, only people can make the country or the world perfect. The idea of a perfect society means a world peace. If there's no peace, there is always a war. People would not understand each other feelings. If people continue to think critically the world can't be peaceful, it is impossible to make the ideal society that all of us wanted.

The grapevines about Atlantis still exist because the unfulfilled dreams of mankind, I think all of us want to live happily. The ideal society like Atlantis became popular and not yet erased in people’s mind because it was describe as perfect. After I researched about Atlantis as a perfect society, I've realized that as long as people help each other and people still wanted a perfect life, a perfect society or to live happily this topic will became popular.