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Plato is one of the world best known and most widely read and studied philosopher. Plato thinks that a child’s education is the last thing should be left to chance or parental whim since the young mind is so easily molded. Plato apparently considered most of his fellow Athenians to be hopelessly corrupt, easily inflamed by hollow rhetoric and seduce by easily pleasures. Plato quoted “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find ways around the laws”.
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Aristotle is a towering figure in ancient greek philosophy, making contribution to logic. He based his ethics on a physcological theory human nature insisting that we are naturally virtuous, rational, social and happiness seeking. Aristotle concludes that the role of the leader is to create the environment in which all members of an organization can realize their own potential. Aristotle qouted “ Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
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Socrates is one of the few individuals whom one could say have shaped the cultural and intellectual development of the world that without him history would be profoundly different. He is one of the philosophers insisted on our right to think for ourselves. Socrates thought to the entrepreneurs that a Socratic method is a way of thinking that allows individuals to define their own purpose of learning and explored it purpose through open minded questioning of what they hold to be true.
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Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are the founders of Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism focuses on the results or consequences of a decision. It revolves around the concept of “ the end justifies the means”. It believes that outcomes as a result an action has a greater value compared to the latter. Utilitarianism promotes “ the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people.
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Thomas Hobbes is one of the philosophers of law whose concept are classified differently. He is considered to be supporter of natural law or positivistic, depending which the threads of his work is closely considered or particularly exposed. Legal positivism is the legal philosophy which argues that any laws are nothing more or nothing less than simply the expression of the will of whatever authority created them. Make positive laws as norms of morality.