... will exist since Earth ceases to exist. As one of the most civilized groups of history, the Ancient Greeks, since had a lot of extra time to think, answered and for the first time announced their answers to these fundamental questions. The famous philosophers of the age, Aristotle and Plato, gave shape to the understanding of good life in ancient Greek and they helped to construct the Ancient Greek Moral Theory. In order to have a general view on the thoughts of these two men, their most famous works, the Republic by Plato and the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle can be studied. Both philosophers' aim was to idealize the concept of good, and reach an ultimate conclusion on how to achieve it. Plato's argument bases itself as the search for the true meaning of justice, piety. Plato throughout his dialogues and mainly in Republic suggests that there are elements to the ...

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