Socrates sees a need for the censorship of great pieces of poetry. He challenges the truth and usefulness of Homer’s works to his future Guardians. He has many fears of the possible implications of studying such pieces. He fears that the description of Hades and grief of Zeus after finding out Sarpedon is fated to be killed by Patroclus will make the warriors soft and not self-sufficient(387a-b). He also fears the influence of these works will result in the future warriors losing self control (390b), becoming greedy, slavish, and arrogant (391b), suffering from violent mood changes (388b), and using falsehoods (389b). He seems to worry particularly that these characteristics will be a result of young people believing that the “gods bring abou

In books VI and VII the divided line arises as a metaphorical aid for the philosophers in coming to understand the difference between what is as opposed to what comes in and out of being by showing the difference between being and becoming through the Allegory of the cave and the responsibility of the philosophers to educate the ignorant in the distinction, creating a wiser society.

In book VI Socrates establishes two ways of knowing the world, perceiving with the senses and understanding with intellect. He shows that two types of reality exist, the visible realm and the intelligible realm (508b-c). Socrates then attempts to reveal the inextricable relationship between the two. This epistemological outline gives a concise didactic representation of the kind intellectual training needed for the future guardians to obtain the ability to detach themselves from a fixation on sensation to an understanding of the true principle of knowledge. Socrates believes that most importantly philosophers have to “learn to rise out of becoming and grasp being, if they are ever to become rational,”(525b). In book VII the Allegory of the Cave metaphorically presents a person's travels from ignorance to wisdom. The image of the Divided Line provides a path out of the “cave” (514a) thus metaphorically aiding them in realizing their responsibility in knowin

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