The Moral Life
- One basic way we use the word "good" is to express moral approval.
- When we say someone is living well or that they have lived a good life, we may simply mean that they are a good person.
- Socrates and Plato both gave absolute priority to being a virtuous person over all other supposedly good things such as pleasure, wealth, or power.
- Many religions also conceive of the good life in moral terms as a life lived according to God's laws.
- A person who lives this way-obeying the commandments and performing the proper rituals-is pious.
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