Socrates says at 485c that philosophers “must never willingly…

Socrates says at 485c that philosophers “must never willingly…

 

Socrates says at 485c that philosophers “must never willingly…

Socrates says at 485c that philosophers “must never willingly tolerate

falsehood in any form.” What then of the marriage lotteries ( 459c-460a ) and the myth of the metals ( 414c-415d )? Is this not the toleration, indeed the propagation, of falsehood? How might Socrates defend himself against the charge of inconsistency? Consider what he says at the end of Book II about lying and the divine ( 382a-e ).

Plato’s Republic Scene 484a to 487a

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