{"id":10292,"date":"2023-03-24T00:08:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T00:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/socrates-proposes-what-he-calls-a-noble-lie-what-is-it-and-what-does-it-mean-discuss\/"},"modified":"2023-03-24T00:08:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T00:08:27","slug":"socrates-proposes-what-he-calls-a-noble-lie-what-is-it-and-what-does-it-mean-discuss","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/socrates-proposes-what-he-calls-a-noble-lie-what-is-it-and-what-does-it-mean-discuss\/","title":{"rendered":"Socrates proposes what he calls a \u201cnoble lie\u201d. What is it and what does it mean? Discuss."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Socrates did not explicitly use the term \u201cnoble lie\u201d in his writings, but the concept is attributed to him in plato\u2019s dialogues. In the Republic, Socrates discusses the idea of a \u201cmyth of the metals\u201d or a \u201cnoble lie\u201d as a means to promote social stability and maintain a well-ordered society. According to socrates, the \u201c noble lie\u201d is a fictional story or myth that is deliberately created and propagated by the ruling class to persuade the citizens to accept and uphold a particular social order. The myth is \u201c noble\u201d because it is intended to serve the greater good, even if it requires a little deception. In the case of the \u201cmyth of the metals,\u201d the lie holds that each person is born with a certain metal in their soul that determines their natural abilities and place in society. This idea is used to justify a rigid caste system in which the ruling class is made up of those with the \u201cgold\u201d metal in their souls, while the working class has the \u201cbronze\u201d or \u201ciron\u201d metals<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socrates did not explicitly use the term \u201cnoble lie\u201d in his writings, but the concept is attributed to him in plato\u2019s dialogues. In the Republic, Socrates discusses the idea of a \u201cmyth of the metals\u201d or a \u201cnoble lie\u201d as a means to promote social stability and maintain a well-ordered society. According to socrates, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[702],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/10292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/10292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=10292"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=10292"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=10292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}