Our failure to bring forth good humans.

WH Auden had said if the Greek civilisation had not exited, we would never have become fully conscious.

How did the universe originate? What is truth? What is reality? What are moral values? What is conscience? Is man forced or free? What is beauty? These are some of the questions that have been asked throughout human history.

The ancient Greeks not only taught us to think, but also to learn to think about our thinking. The Greek lived in a world which they built on the spirit of wisdom. They wanted to make themselves socially better and attractive. Socrates used to say it is true that for philosophy, a topic is worth more than trees, stones or even stars; and what is human mind and what can it be?

Thinking, learning, remembering, knowing, creation of new ideas and conservation of knowledge are the attributes of being human. Freedom, security, food, peace, happiness, abode and pleasure are among the first dreams of man. Man continued to move forward with the help of these dreams. It is because of them that a civilised man was born from a barbarian being. In the beginning, his dreams were crushed by wild animals, and then by barbaric people; but he kept protecting these dreams along as well as himself.

The ancient Greeks knew that human started from a very lower, rather barbaric level. The god Zeus sent Hermes on earth with this order: 'Give them the law on my behalf and annihilate those human beings like disease who cannot adopt nobility, good manners and justice.'

The concept was that education and development of human beings is possible through law, and civilisation depends on it because moral and social virtues are common through it. And the birth of a good and better human being becomes possible. Then good and better rulers are provided from among them.

According to Homer, the concept of good and better person depends on four basic characteristics: bravery, chastity, justice and wisdom. There are three schools that influence a man's life. First, his own home; second, from where he acquires knowledge; and third, his society. Compared to the two other schools, society has the biggest influence on man.

Let us try to examine...