In every culture and in every person there is a different duty for them to do. Based on how important the duty is to them. Every culture has made an influence on people's morals and values. In ancient Persian culture they follow their own morals and values unlike in ancient Indian culture, they follow and respect the duties of social groups. In American culture they each follow their own rules and duties according to their own morals and values. It is one's responsibility to follow their own morals and values even if it could affect them negatively in the long run.
In Persian literature, there is a story about Rustam and Sohrab. What mainly goes on in this epic, is that Rustam and Sohrab fight to the death but Rustam doesn’t realize that …show more content…
In World Civilizations, we learned about Socrates and Crito, which was a story by Plato. In this story, Socrates was unjustly imprisoned so Crito had come by to visit him and try to persuade him to escape. Socrates had strong morals and values, and one of his duties as a citizen of Athens was so stick by the law. In a way to explain to Crito, Socrates uses the example of people in everyday life. “And what of doing evil in return for evil, which is the morality of the many-is that just or not just?” (Crito 460). In this quote, what Socrates is trying to say is that if you do evil, evil come back. Socrates believed that it was better to let it be and stay in prison than to escape, because the consequences might come back worse and he wanted to be a role model and show what a good person looks like. “But why my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many?” (Crito 104). Socrates didn’t care about what others thought or said, he believed what he was doing was right and no one was going to change that. His morals and values were strong, which helped him sustain his duty as a citizen, and even if this would hurt him in the end he would die a hero for sticking beside the law and completing his
In Persian literature, there is a story about Rustam and Sohrab. What mainly goes on in this epic, is that Rustam and Sohrab fight to the death but Rustam doesn’t realize that …show more content…
In World Civilizations, we learned about Socrates and Crito, which was a story by Plato. In this story, Socrates was unjustly imprisoned so Crito had come by to visit him and try to persuade him to escape. Socrates had strong morals and values, and one of his duties as a citizen of Athens was so stick by the law. In a way to explain to Crito, Socrates uses the example of people in everyday life. “And what of doing evil in return for evil, which is the morality of the many-is that just or not just?” (Crito 460). In this quote, what Socrates is trying to say is that if you do evil, evil come back. Socrates believed that it was better to let it be and stay in prison than to escape, because the consequences might come back worse and he wanted to be a role model and show what a good person looks like. “But why my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many?” (Crito 104). Socrates didn’t care about what others thought or said, he believed what he was doing was right and no one was going to change that. His morals and values were strong, which helped him sustain his duty as a citizen, and even if this would hurt him in the end he would die a hero for sticking beside the law and completing his