Introducing myself

[Dim Witte]

I come as Dim Witte, using Google Groups as a springboard and opportunity to voice questions that still haunt me after college.

Like, just now at another news group on survival, there was discussion about what is best to do to survive when some say, like Chicken Little, "The sky is falling."  So many threats to our existence and even defenses.

So I wonder if any have a comment about the philosophic issue concerning "the good," which is brought up as a matter of Greek ethics by the likes of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.

One source says:

"Three longstanding philosophical doctrines compose the theory: (1) the Platonic view that goodness is coextensive with reality or being, (2) the perfectionist view that the highest good consists in the development and perfection of one's nature, and (3) the hedonist view that the highest good is pleasure."

Anything to say about "what the good is" that helps us sort out these times?