Question

Socrates said that " moral education is more important than food or dress." Comment.

Answer 1

Moral education is an important part of critical thought and helping people to understand themselves, the universe and their relationships with others. Fundamentally existence, life, and especially human life acts to create meaning for itself. Understanding this meaning for yourself, for other people and for other parts of the universe requires a certain framework for thought. While development of this framework is primarily a natural result of existing/living, it can be encouraged and catalyzed by education as a specific component of that existence. This is highly relevant for humans existing with one another as part of a society so as to maintain and cultivate both the individual members of the society and the society as a whole.

Assuming that humans share, on average, certain goals and desires for themselves and for our species, moral education facilitates an understanding as described above so as to assist us in reaching those goals together.