Righteous concepts can not be humbled by force. Unjust force on the other hand will sooner or later be smashed to smithereens by righteous ideas. It seems as if man has an inherited feeling for what is right. It may take time, but the good will always win, which history has proved again and again. The problem is that man doesn't learn from history and that every generation seems to make the same mistake over and over again. The origin of these ideas was born in the 5th century BC after the setback of the long-drawn out Peloponnisian War when the Sophists started to question the Greek Homeric mythological family, which at the time provided the Greek outlook on life. A growing intelligentsia started questioning the gods´ rule of the world and thus, the so far unknown concept of individualism gave birth to a questioning of moral, legal and religious norms. Socrates reacted against individualism and called upon man to seek knowledge on how to find goodness for both the individual and the society.
Power of Goodness
The Ancient Greeks

His pupil Plato followed up these thoughts in his ‘Idea’ or theory of ideas where he seeks the unalterable reality, the unshaken and righteous good. Another philosophical school, Stoicism emerging in the 2nd century BC., says that the universe is permeated by a divine sense of which man is part and hence, he is able to follow true goodness. Democritus and Leucippus declared that the first principle of the universe is a matter of atoms and vacuum. This simply means that there were divine forces before the first manifestation, when it turned into volition, which I consider constituted the initial impulse from the good forces to the atoms and for each single individual to stage a creative process. Spiritual atoms rule physical atoms, not the other way around. In this way thought is superior to action. However, action being the visible and the measurable agent is the more important and that is why free will is the most significant. The crux is: what does man want?