Kenneth B Purca Grade 12 Socrates March, 01, 2023

BUSINESS ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

1. Socrates
- Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher, one of the three greatest figures of
the ancient period of western philosophy, he was admired by his followers for
his integrity, his self-mastery, his profound philosophical insight, and his great
argumentative skill. He taught that people should care less about their bodies
and possessions and more about their souls, saying, “wealth does not bring
goodness, but goodness brings wealth.” As such he believed he was serving
the city of Athens and its citizens by highlighting their incorrect thinking. He
was a man of principle.
2. Plato
- Plato was a philosopher during the 5th century BCE. He was a student of
Socrates and later taught Aristotle. He founded the Academy, an academic
program which many consider to be the first Western university. Plato’s most
famous work is the Republic, which details a wise society run by philosopher.
Plato’s Quotes, “Love is a serious mental disease.” “When the mind is
thinking it is talking to itself.” “Human behavior flows from three main
sources: desire, emotion and knowledge.” “Wise men talk because they have
something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”
3. Aristotle
-He is one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived and the first genuine
scientist in history. He made pioneering contributions to all fields of
philosophy and science, he invented the field of formal logic, and he identified
the various scientific disciplines and explored their relationships to each other.
Aristotle was also a teacher and founded his own school in Athens, known as
the Lyceum.
4. Immanuel Kant
- At the foundation of Kant’s system is the doctrine of “transcendental
idealism,” which emphasize a distinction between what we can experience
(the natural, observable world) and what we cannot (“supersensible” objects
such as God and the soul). Kant argued that we can only have knowledge of
things we can experience. “All our knowledge begins with the senses,
proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing
higher than reason.” Famous lines of Immanuel Kant.