Plato and human nature

Plato believes that the humans are innately wicked and twisted. He doesn't believe that everyone has the capability of being good. As he shows his philosophy of bronze, silver, and gold and how humans have this pre-destined life. Plato also believes that the majority of the humans are not able to achieve their potential. As he states that many are usually dedicated to a profession by greed rather than by passion or being able to do that profession well.
Plato being the pupil of Socrate, it would be fair to say much of Plato's philosophy is just an expansion or build up on what Socrate's philosophy was. This being said it can also be assumed that Plato had a similar definition of justice and how this related back to his perspective on human nature. To be just, a human must have certain qualities and can not be miser, hurt others and other bad qualities. Just as Socrates believed that many people could not be just and there was only a selected few, Plato had the same opinion on that matter.

Myth

The second generation would believe this "myth" because according to Socrates the majority of the population would become silver and bronze. This means that many of them don't have the qualities that a ruler would, so more of them would easily believe this myth. They would believe it because since they aren't leaders they don't know what a leader would do so they would be easily influenced.   

Propaganda

This poster was used during WW II to influence the attitude of Americans. The purpose of it was to make Japanese seem threatening. The United States army promoted this type of propaganda.   

Propaganda is a form of communication aimed towards influencing the attitude of a population toward some cause or position. This magazine uses celebrities to promote dieting. By having a celebrity diet it promotes the concept of dieting and makes it a trend.

  

Justice?

According to Dictionary.com justice is the quality of moral rightness. That is a very ambiguous definition. To me justice is made out of several factors among them are ethic and morals. In cases like  the shooting of Mr. Brown in Ferguson, I don't think justice was really served. I believe this because the officer that shot Mr. Brown didn't suffer severe consequences for his actions. The incident wasn't taken to the level it would have been if the man shot was white and the officer was African American.    I think that it is injustice to judge a case by the pigment of your skin. A crime should be judged by the evidence and the facts, not speculations or theories. It is hard to do this because when judging something you want to be impartial. Although, no matter how much we try that is impossible, emotion is attached to our reasoning in some sort of way. We can say that we do not have an emotional attachment to certain issues, but we do.

Alienation

Work, a four letter word that puts me on edge. It wasn't always like that. I didn't mind going to work, I mean four hours seemed to go by pretty fast. Now four hours is an eternity. I know I started to detest  work once I started to work Sunday mornings. Why, because I work as a cashier at Harris Tetter this means Sunday morning is the worst. Everyone comes to buy there weekly grocery and most of the customers are in the worst mood possible. I became irritated and I slowly started to care less for quality of my work. When there are ten to thirteen people in your lane and every single one has a cart that's overflowing. It doesn't really matter if the cans are baged by themselves or with the fruit. You just want to get the customer out as soon as possible. Being part of this system every Sunday morning becomes tedious. No one really cares that you take you time to double bag a customers order or that you place items alike together. Most of the time the customer will be on their phone and you have to wait there for several minutes till they realize they have to pay. Even when I work the self checkout it's the same. Either the customer will want you to bag their order and will fail to understand the concept of a self checkout, key word self. Or the process of scanning an iteam is foreign to them. Work itself is the one thing that will never fail to make me feel alienated.

Heraclitus and Parmenides

Instinctively I want to say that everything changes and nothing really stays the same. But to say that is taking a huge assumption because certain things will always remain the same. The fact that my brother is my brother will never change. Maybe how we feel towards each other will fluctuate but the fact that he is my brother will remain the same. Another thing that is held to be true is the order of things, in a story you always have the beginning, middle, and end. Maybe in a different order, but this makes up a story. This is the same for the course of life. We are born we live and we die. It is a continuous cycle. There are certain things that never change, that will be true till the end of time.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/help/easy.htm

This site helped me understand Hegel mainly because it separates different concepts into it's own idea. Then it explains those ideas in plain English. It starts by explain Hegel's process of thought when thinking about his Phenomenology and this helps because before getting into depth of his theories you have an idea of his logic. In the very end he also explains his absolute knowledge in terms that you can really understand by splitting it up into parts. It explains contradiction in three parts and this helps because instead of one large generic paragraph it's specific. The only thing with this site is that while reading it you have to be aware that the site is written in a Marxism point of view and this affect parts of the blog.