... the strongest people rise up to the top. The other noble lie that is told is the procreation lottery. The lottery is constituted as population control in order to produce the correct amount of each class of citizen and only the best possible offspring. In order to better understand why these lies are necessary Socrates relates the story of the Allegory of the Cave to illustrate the necessity of the lies. In the Allegory of the Cave, people are chained together in a cave facing the walls. The ... only things they ever see are shadows, which unbeknownst to them, are controlled by other pe...

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... ' is accordant with its resemblance of that which is 'hottest'"15; the independent measure that Plato inquired there should be, in this case, is temperature. To make a crude analogy, our senses would be like the thermometer that is not entirely accurate. The Theory of Forms was highly influential in developing ideas about goodness and reality. The prisoners in the 'Allegory of the cave' would be prepared to accept ... what they perceive as the true reality, and so would never be able to apprehend the true and absolute Form of the Good. Plato argued that we would only commit ......

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