Nobody would think that Socrates and a motorcycle club would
share any resemblances. However, they both represent the idea of
counterculture. Socrates tried to teach rationality to unreasonable people,
which led to his death sentence. SAMCRO also challenges us to look against the
grain, although I do not recommend riding around on a Harley guns blazing. This
is only the tip of the iceberg for the morals and ethics, or lack thereof, that
surrounds the whole ideology behind the motorcycle club known as SAMCRO.
On the
outside they are seen as violent spawns of hell, however, once you look deep
into the club you see a family bound by their own set of virtues and
brotherhood that is binded by a leather cut. When the audience looks at the
club as a whole, there is no real sympathy for the club do to all of the
seemingly unjustifiable actions that the club commits throughout the seven
seasons. However, that is not how the audience looks at the club; they see they
individual members and the virtues that drive them down the road they go. This
allows for sympathy for almost all of the characters that we can almost see the
justification for their actions, although even sometimes that is a stretch.
Although I do not believe that Aristotle would agree with the actions of
SAMCRO, I do believe that he would commend the club’s commitment to virtues.
The Sons of Anarchy draws ideals from various philosophers
such as Nietzche, Aquinas, and Machiavelli, of which will be continued in
subsequent posts.
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