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Plato's Noble Lie



yes that is a "why is six afraid of seven" joke. deal with it.

Also, my Dad had to have an emergency surgery in Mexico where he lives, and had to borrow money from basically a stranger, if you can spare a few dollars for his gofundme that would help a ton to increase total happiness on Planet Earth.

In Plato's Republic he said that you basically had to come up with national myths and a "lie" that would placate the uneducated population and make them do their duty to the city without really understanding why.

Separately, one consequence of Plato's theory of forms is that abstract concepts, such as numbers, "really" exist in some sense. So "the concept of the number six" exists in reality, in the world of forms.

In Plato's Republic he said that you basically had to come up with national myths and a "lie" that would placate the uneducated population and make them do their duty to the city without really understanding why.

Separately, one consequence of Plato's theory of forms is that abstract concepts, such as numbers, "really" exist in some sense. So "the concept of the number six" exists in reality, in the world of forms.

Philosophers in this comic: Plato, Aristotle
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