Celebration of Good
Focus: The Good
Celebrate the good things that happen in the world! Why would we want to sit around and troll through bad news? Surely is can't be good for our psyche. By highlighting and talking about inspiring, good stories we believe we can combat sensationalized 24-7 news. Media companies have stories to draw eyeballs in. What does it mean to be good? My first reaction when asked, "What is 'The Good'?" is to say it depends on the individual you ask the question because everyone has a different idea of what it means to be good. To me it seems logical that 'The Good' is subjective, open to anyone's interpreation.
it is fairly easy to argue that what is good is subjective. However, Plato also thought about what good is. Plato was trying to define something a little bigger. He was trying to conceive of an ultimate Good. Of course, this was 2400 years ago and attitudes have changed.We might not be able to agree that there is an ultimate good for everyone on the earth because different cultural backgrounds will require different behaviors. For example, Americans think a blonde girl in a bikini is the greatest, but other folks from more conservative cultures will think she is not respectable.
The Good - Background
Plato elaborated on this idea in his famous book, "The Republic". In this work Plato sought to articulate his notion of an ideal community and ruler. For me, as an existentialist, this is a real stretch. One's perception is surely unique because it is informed by so many events over such a long time that it seems impossible to deny the unlikelihood that there is One Good. Perhaps Plato's Good was indeed relevant to most aristocratic Greeks that were male living more than two thousand years ago.