
The Noble Lie | The New Thinkery Ep. 94
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Is Socrates Endorsing the Noble Eye?
i think socrates is trying to show you that this is how political communities are. They all rest on these kind of these noble lies, right? I mean, manifest destiny being kind of a silly example, right herein thenited states. But imen i went to israel, right? They think that they have a claim to that particular this is the holy land. This is our land. So people really do, i think, tend to believe in the special character of the place. Therefrom i think that's a big part of what it means to be the boundaries between art, between our city and your city,. or ar real there, sort of sanctified by god or nature
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