
The Noble Lie | The New Thinkery Ep. 94
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Are You Doing the Thing or I Do Wrong?
Alexieno tries to explain a series of lies being told by socrates. The city's inhabitants are born with gold, silver or iron in their souls. If you're born with gold in your soul, you're sorof naturally, a ruler. If you have silver in your soul,. you are an auxiliary, just a common soldier. And if you have iron or bronze, your a farmer or craftsman of another sort. So these are the two fundamental lies that socrates insists on on telling. They find it preposterous. How in the world could we ever get people to believe these lies, is sort of their response. Then socrates sayso it's not cand
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