Note to the reader: This are just rough ideas. (I may have missed some things. . . ) Feel free to post any comments or new ideas!

The purpose of Plato's myth of metals seems to be that he wants to introduce a falsehood to a society in order to achieve an ideal and orderly way of organizing a group of people trying to live together. The falsehood being that people are created by god with a metal that decides who is better equipped to rule, assist those that rule, or be the working classmen. Ultimately the goal of the falsehood is to incite such clear and “direct” ideas into the people’s minds that they learn to value their “state” and their fellow-men in such a way that materialistic values are not present. They would not value gold or jewelry and so they would be “uncorrupted” or pure from greed and personal gain that seems almost inevitable in a place/society where the worth of an individual is decided by what they own. In Plato’s myth of metals, this would not be so since the citizens would share and appreciate each other and themselves more than property. Achieving such a balanced and "direct" society where roles would not be easily questioned, the society would more happily co-exist.

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