<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section is written like a personal reflection or opinion essay that states a Wikipedia editor's personal feelings about a topic . Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style . (September 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section is written like a personal reflection or opinion essay that states a Wikipedia editor's personal feelings about a topic . Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style . (September 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Many views value unity as a good: to go beyond eudaimonia by saying that an individual person's flourishing is valuable only as a means to the flourishing of society as a whole . In other words, a single person's life is, ultimately, not important or worthwhile in itself, but is good only as a means to the success of society as a whole . Some elements of Confucianism are an example of this, encouraging the view that people ought to conform as individuals to demands of a peaceful and ordered society . </P> <P> According to the naturalistic view, the flourishing of society is not, or not the only, intrinsically good thing . Defenses of this notion are often formulated by reference to biology, and observations that living things compete more with their own kind than with other kinds . Rather, what is of intrinsic good is the flourishing of all sentient life, extending to those animals that have some level of similar sentience, such as Great Ape personhood . Others go farther, declaring that life itself is of intrinsic value . </P>

Why do you think that so many stories from medieval times were about good and evil