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taught that the only life worth living was the reflective life. A life of self-
understanding. I would appear that Socrates also argued, like his student
Plato, after him, that there are three levels of human consciousness, body-
life or the intellectual life was greater than the bureaucratic political life, or
the life of the base emotions or sense experience. Eventually, the citizens of
Socrates spent his entire life, later the basis for the western mode of
thought, arguing for higher consciousness and higher values. The citizens
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very minimal good. Unfortunately, conventional authority tends to promote
the least common denominator in society rather than the The Good. Even
when the Good is taught, it is done in such a rigid unproductive way that
not lives devoted to conventional authority. While one may argue that it is
society will have mere window dressing for justice and social justice. Such
a society will not really promote a life of individual reflection and reason.
which is in turn as good as King George the III, of England at the time of the
that all we have left is convention for authority. I argue that such a society