Recall a time that you heard a statement of “fact” that was later found to be untrue. It can be from a parent, a teacher, a friend, a government official, a book, or a film. How did you find out it was untrue and how did it make you feel? Did it change your outlook on anything?
An example from a book we recently read is in Fahrenheit 451, where Montag realizes that books are actually good things and should not be destroyed. For Montag, that realization was profound and changed the way he lived and thought. You might not have experienced something as dramatic, but you might have been exposed to ideas that some people, including yourself, assumed were true, only to later realize were untrue.
Learning how to live your life so that you can guard against untruths and the illusions of society is partly what we will be reading about when we start Plato’s Republic.
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