Noble Lie

“Noble Lie”

Plato’s “noble lie” is one of the thought worthy aspects in the book of the Republic. He describes the people of the “regime” as intentionally misled and misdirected in an attempt to make them unified as a group and loyal to the regime. The “noble lie” provides a foundation for the regime that Socrates himself describes with detail in the Republic. He said everyone is giving an equal origin and by setting the social position and class of everyone in the just regime.

The “noble lie” was written as two parts, the first being that everyone’s “training and instruction”. According to Plato, he said the regime was just a dream in the bowels of mother earth and when they were done they were sent back up to the surface of the earth (Plato, 414c). When I read the first part of his foundation, I kind of laugh because no one in their right mind could take this “Lie” seriously as it seems. After all, we don’t have to do a lot research to find that humans are born from humans, in much the same way that chickens are born from chickens. It doesn't seem to be any animal that's born from the earth, crops maybe, but not animals, and certainly not humans. According to my knowledge, this “Lie” has some interesting compelling force to it, because if you really think about it, citizens of different countries regularly think of their country as their motherland, or their fatherland. Every country you travel too, you can feel the passion and relationship its citizens have for their own city or country. Think about the word patriotism, where we expect citizens of every country to be patriots. Yet the meaning of that word comes from the Greek and Latin that means father. We should be patriots, in other words we should treat our city or country as if it were our parents.

The second part of the “noble lie” classifies the people of the regime into groups of metals. According to Socrates, he believes that’s the people should be told that their leaders called guardians have...