Analysis Of The Book ' The Noble Lie '

Any useful religion can be based on lies. Religion is an establishment that provides communal ties, morality, and hope, even if it lacks truth. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut conveys this message through the lies of Bokonon. Bokonon provides teaching and hope to those in the underdeveloped country of San Lorenzo. He also provides the narrator with a sense of understanding about the world around him. The narrator, John, recognizes the impact and power the lies of Bokonon had on the citizens of San Lorenzo. The religion united the people of San Lorenzo but ultimately sentenced them to their death.

When America entered into the Second World War it made their friends from different region and everywhere in the world to unite and fight for freedom and also fight against fascism. Ronald Takaki, a famous historian finds out that the armed fight for democracy abroad was followed by disregard of America that everyone was made or created equal. There was racism of all kinds; segregation of African Americans and imprisonment of Japanese Americans and also denying to overall asylum to the Jewish refugees.

Perry Smith and Dick Hickock are two remarkably different characters. In the beginning of the novel, they’re known only as the murders of the Clutter family, but Truman Capote tells their life stories in such a way that they become more than that. Even though these two men are basically introduced as murderers, they quickly become relatable and interesting characters. So much is learned about their feelings and lives that one can not help but almost look past their reckless ways. Both of these men have unique character traits that amalgamate in an intriguing way. Throughout In Cold Blood, Capote includes many instances that show how Dick and Perry, when combined, make the perfect murderer.

In discussions on the topic of lying, a controversial issue has been whether there is justification of lying or not. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of if there is ever a time when a lie can be told for the good of someone else. Whereas some are convinced that lies should never be told, others agree that there are certain instances where lying is acceptable because the liar protects the one lied to. In the essay “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson, she explores the types of lies and how they affect everyday people. In Anton Chekhov’s fictional story, “The Lady with the Dog,” he displays two characters, Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna, lying for love and to avoid consequence by their spouses. I stand against lying for the benefit of oneself because I think that it has the ability to ruin relationships or friendships and is hard to keep up the lies which leads to creating more lies. Although some people think that there are circumstances that warrant lying, I claim that no one should lie because lies end up hurting both people involved: the liar and the person lied to.

In the Fictional novel, “the Palace Thief” by Ethan Canin, description, narrative voice and dialogue interface creating a unique novel. Through the use of figurative language delivers the author’s message that in contemporary society we are surrounded by paradoxes, such as educational intentions, ethical compromise and moral dilemmas.

Socrates’ intended use of the ‘noble lie’ is, above all, to create and maintain a just, politically stable social structure and hierarchy to the benefit of a city or state known as the Republic and by extension, to all inhabitants. In justifying the noble lie as a method for promoting political stability, it is necessary to split the analysis into two parts. Primarily, does the method satisfy political stability, and by association (but most importantly), presupposing successful execution, is the method itself ethically defensible?

Geoffrey Silk AmLit Ratti November 23 2015 A Lie Is An End A society works best on trust and honesty. Without that, there is no base to fall back on. It is just building on an old unstable platform that will give at any moment.

The best way to get a four spot on the Billboard Hot 100, is by rapping about something everyone will go through, a heartbreak. That is what Kanye West did in “Heartless,” a song about a heartbreak he went through with former fiancee Alexis Phifer. The song debuted as a single but was later put on his 808s & Heartbreaks album. The song explains nearly everything about his relationship. They both made mistakes, but she’d act as if hers were minor. That is why he states, “I’m gonna take of tonight.” He emphasizes the word tonight, to prove he is exhausted and wants to be taken seriously. But he then argues himself by asking why they always end up late night on the phone. Which proves who is the intended audience. Simply, anyone that has gone through something similar, sometimes ends up on the phone with them late night with remorse. West’s tone in is angry in this song. He was tired of his ex-fiancee, who left him at his lowest point. When his mother had passed away just months before he was finished working on this album. Both of the women that he loved the most have left his life, in an instant. Kanye just began working on his music as a way to overlook the trials set ahead of him. He released this song and it was only the second time he used auto tune. Apparently auto tune can get you a 5x platinum record, mind that’s five million sales.

Rene Denfeld’s novel The Enchanted applies a creative method of storytelling to an intriguing subject. While discussing the corrupt inner workings of a prison, the unfortunate and sickening lives of all the characters, and what justice happens to be, Denfeld alludes to several other works to help her express the points being made. Due to the narrative aspects of this novel the reader is subjected to a wide range of emotions including sympathy, sorrow, and scorn and kept in the dark while somehow knowing everything there is to know.

Religion is common around the world on every continent, in every country, in all kinds of different people. Despite their differences, they all provide something that the group of people needs. But is there some truth in what some may call lies? In Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut, religion works for the people of San Lorenzo, giving them comfort in the worst of conditions. While religion may just be made up lies, it is more beneficial than science, which cannot give people what they need.

In Chapter 3, David Platt talks about a specific seminary graduation requirement that would sound almost impossible to many students of the Word ,here in the United States. He says that before a student can graduate from an Indonesian seminary, the student must “ plant a church, with at least thirty new, baptized believers, in a Muslim community.” This book was written about six years ago when ISIS was barely an organization heard of. Nowadays, being an Indonesian seminary graduate could cost them their life. This is where one experiences life to the fullest meaning of “ beginning at the end of ourselves.”

Collis Potter Huntington was a man who was known for his nonstop ambition, great railroad builder and an extraordinary financier. Many people know him as part of “The Big Four” or the man who was involved in the transcontinetal railroads. The transcontinental railroads was Huntington’s prodigious project of his lifetime, but he had his hand in a little bit of every business in the United States. Huntington’s ambition did not let him stop after his success with the transcontinental railroad, he kept on travelling and creating more projects for himself. “People have said about him that he has done greater things where it has helped America to progress”. Some people are born to be behind the curtains doing the most work to make a change

Hilary of Poitiers, begins chapter 1 of his Commentary on Matthew, looking into the lineage of Jesus. He spends much time stating that if you look into Joseph or Mary’s line, they both trace back to King David and then to Abraham. Hilary spends time looking into how Mary is never addressed, upon the birth of Jesus, as Mary, but only as the “child’s mother” (Poitiers, 45). Another subject Hilary address is that of, whether or not John was a son of Joseph’s, prior to Joseph and Mary’s engagement/marriage. Hilary states that if John was a son of Joseph’s that, scripture would have documented and encounter with Mary, John, and an angle that proclaimed to Mary to take John as her own song and for John to claim Mary as his mother (46). Multiple times, throughout the first few chapters, Hilary refers to Abraham and how God is capable of raising sons of Abraham from stone (50, 51). In chapter 2, Hilary talks about Jesus’ baptism. Now he goes on a small rabbit trail, but it is one that I find to be important to understand. Hilary stated that baptism is what God used to name Jesus his son, so when we are baptized, it is our way of showing that we become the children of God.

This may sound like an easy task, but after scrounging through these sources, there is no one confirmed definition of what a lie entails. There are however, a few concise details that the majority of these editorials have in common, such as: the intention, the cover-up of the truth, and the ability to delude. These three aspects are the bases for a more concise meaning of the phrase: to lie. A lie from a shared standpoint is as simple as, not telling the truth, but for the purpose of this paper there is so much more to that definition that needs broadening. For starters, lets look at a more descriptive meaning of a lie according to John J. Mearsheimer. In his book, Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics, Mearsheimer states that a lie is,” When a person makes a statement that he knows or suspects to be false in the hope that others will think it is true” (16). This definition mentions knowing, which is another word for intention, showing that there is the aim to deceive, but it is still lacking on the other two elements that will clearly make something a lie. Which brings up Fetzer’s article on Disinformation: The Use of False Information, in this text the authors equates a lie to, the intentional, deliberate, or misleading of information, which he refers to as disinformation (Fetzer 231). Fetzer’s description of a deception brings up another key component, which is, misleading; this demonstrates that the ‘liar’ intends to lead his subject away from the truth. The final of these parts to a good definition of a lie is dishonesty, which is what Allen Wood argues in his work, Kant and the Right to Lie. In this critique, Wood attempts to make clearer what Immanuel Kant actually meant in his description of a lie as “an intentionally untruthful statement” (Wood 97). What Wood is saying here is there has to be an element of truth that the

Religion emerges from the human susceptibility for protection and use it as a tool for liberation from the bitter realities and perplexities of the world. “Religious ideas are teachings and pronouncements about facts and states of external (or internal) reality that convey something one has not discovered for oneself and which assert the right to be believed” (Freud 88). We must object to religious claims because there is no proof to substantiate them and merely ideas we follow for generations. Religious ideas are beyond the control of reasoning, as if we don’t validate our beliefs and behave that our beliefs have a substantial basis of support. Religious ideas are teachings, not the thought that