The Myth Of Virtue In Plato's The Republic

Socrates then creates a myth that only the guardians will tell the citizens. They will tell the people that they aren’t really children that came from human parents, but the children of the earth. After being born, part of the earth remained inside of each citizen, gold, silver or bronze. People with gold are “those capable of ruling, which is why they are most honorable” (100). Where as the silver people get into auxiliaries and the bronze people of course are at the bottom of the chain being farmers and craftsmen. Each class should then be educated and live separately from one another, and they were also taught to only breed with those that have soul like their own. From this Plato’s true thoughts can be sought out. Plato does not seem …show more content…
By boiling it down to the idea that citizens are merely a piece of gold silver or bronze gives them the acceptance that they belong to this status they were born into leaving little room for rebellion, and allows them to give full devotion to the their role in the city rather than trying to spend their whole life trying to move up the statuses merely for self gain. This also allows for the citizens not to try and overthrow the rulers because from what the citizens believe, their place was determined by the very nature of the soul, and you cannot change that. Plato claims that this lie would be just because even though it is not true, if the citizens of the city accepted it their lives would be better aimed bettering the city and knowing more about the mortality and the essence of things, rather than if they didn’t believe in this lie they might be led with their ignorance and selfish desires. Just like Socrates, Numerous political leaders for instance, Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton believe that telling a lie to the people of the United States is in fact acceptable. They suppose that this is just by the means that they are in some how protecting the citizens from danger and are doing so for the well being of the country. Recalling …show more content…
It is simple really, she wanted to get reelected, and at the time she was considering running for president and she did not want to be blamed or accounted for having any bad blood on her hands. Plato would have given her a round of applause in doing this I believe. Since Clinton planning on running as a presidential candidate in the upcoming election at the time of the Benghazi attack, and she did not want this attack to play any role in hurting in the election. She might have thought she was at fault, and she may have been, but she has done a lot to better this country and protect the people and did not want this one incident to hurt her in the election so she hid the truth. Some might argue that she shouldn’t have done this because a liar shouldn’t be running the country. On the contrary, people who run for president do so because they think they have the knowledge and experience to better the Country under their leadership. Hilary believed that she as president could be an asset to the people and be able to help them and the country as president, so it is clear that she had lied to the country in order to protect them, and have it not hurt her in the election. Having lied to the people about why the attack occurred is quite acceptable given that in this day in age terrorism is the new aged war. You never