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Thrasymachus And The Noble Lie
Only a fully formed human being with a capacity for reason can understand the Noble Lie and be persuaded by it." Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Yes, I agree with this statement in the sense that a reasonable human being should always work towards exploring his own mind as opposed to thinking through other people’s mind. For example, Thrasymachus justifies this statement when he says, “What folly. Socrates, has taken possession of you all? And why, sillybillies, do you knock under to one another? I say that if you want really to know what justice is, you should not only ask but answer, and you should not seek honor to yourself from the refutation of an opponent, but have your own answer.” The duty of knowing something places great
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Society need only a fully formed human being with a capacity to reason to boldly condemn lies and evil and be persuaded with them as the right norm of life simply because they were sophisticatedly infused in the society by those deemed to be correct and right. Thrasymachus comes out as an only a fully formed human being with a capacity to reason and understands the noble lie and does not want to be persuaded with it. He is willing to challenge the lie and its proponents at any cost when majority of the people are willing to listen and buy into the lie even further. He says, “And now I will not have you say that justice is duty or advantage or profit or gain or interest, for this sort of nonsense will not do for me.” (Plato …show more content…
A reasonable human being would easily tell a lie from the truth and seek to fight for the truth that is hushed a midst lies. A fully formed human being seeks accuracy and independent mind. Why did the rest of the company only be interested in listening and not offering their side of the story? The simple answer to this question is because they could not see the noble lie due to lack of fully formed reasoning capacity. “Several times in the course of the discussion Thrasymachus had made an attempt to get the argument into his own hands.” However, stupidity and compliance to normality whether right or wrong made the company put off Thrasymachus even if he had genuine views that could change the course of the debate and help unearth hidden agendas in the discussion about justice. It is only after damage has been done that he is allowed to speak. Thrasymachus is the only person in the whole company that had a developed capacity for reason, understood the noble lie, refused to be persuaded with it, and instead offered his way of thinking that, “I must have clearness and accuracy.” (Plato

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