Good Monday Morning!
1. Question – Do you rationalize that you are
justified in your ‘wrong’ actions because
you’re not as ‘bad’ as the other guy?
2. Thought – Greek moral philosophy begins with
Socrates, who taught that it is better to suffer injustice
than commit it. Socrates held that committing injustice
defiles or pollutes human beings in their innermost
selves, or in their souls, whereas suffering even the
worst injustice never pollutes the soul. But the soul is
made healthy by doing what is just. Socrates greatest
disciple, Plato (428c. 347 B.C), and Plato’s
greatest student, Aristotle (384-322B.C) both follow this
Socratic understanding of the moral life as
caring for one’s soul. (Invitation to the
Classics by Louise Cowan and Os Guinness)
“My sin was all the more incurable because I
imagined that I was not a sinner.”
(The Confessions; Rex Warner)